A general framework for vessel segmentation in retinal images

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, CIRA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 37-42

  Wu, Chang Hua ^a   Agam, Gady ^b   Stanchev, Peter ^a  

^a KETTERING UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DIFFUSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTICAL FILTERS;

HESSIAN MATRIX; NONLINEAR DIFFUSION FILTERS; RETINAL IMAGES; VESSEL SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 34948873180     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIRA.2007.382924     Document Type: Conference Paper

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