Segmentation of the optic nerve head combining pixel classification and graph search

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6512, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Merickel Jr , Michael B ^a   Abràmoff, Michael D ^a,b,c   Sonka, Milan ^a,b   Wu, Xiaodong ^a,b  

^a IA United States   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature selection; Graph search; Image segmentation; Optic disc; Pixel classification

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; NEURONS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PIXELS;

GRAPH SEARCH; OPTIC DISCS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 36248992931     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.710588     Document Type: Conference Paper

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