Extraction and reconstruction of retinal vasculature

Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 435-442

  Fadzil, M H Ahmad ^a   Izhar, Lila Iznita ^a   Venkatachalam, P A ^a   Karunakar, T V N ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

^b HOSPITAL KUALA LUMPUR   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Gaussian derivative; Region growing; Retinal vasculature detection and reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

GAUSSIAN DERIVATIVE; REGION GROWING; RETINAL VASCULATURE DETECTION AND RECONSTRUCTION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DATA BASE; EYE FUNDUS; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; OCULAR BLOOD VESSEL; PLASTIC SURGERY; RETINA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL VESSELS; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 36248987203     PISSN: 03091902     EISSN: 1464522X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03091900601111201     Document Type: Article

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