Automatic extraction of the structure of the retinal blood vessel network of premature infants

Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1780-1792

  Sukkaew, Lassada ^a   Uyyanonvara, Bunyarit ^a   Barman, Sarah ^b   Fielder, Alistair ^c   Cocker, Ken ^c  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infant retinal image; Retinal vessel extraction; ROP

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; RETINA; RETINAL VESSELS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 35848933245     PISSN: 01252208     EISSN: 01252208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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