Blood vessel classification into arteries and veins in retinal images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6512, Issue PART 3, 2007, Pages

  Kondermann, Claudia ^a   Kondermann, Daniel ^a   Yan, Michelle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arteries and veins; Diabetic retinopathy; Neural networks; Pattern recognition; Support vector machines; Vessel classification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ARTERIES AND VEINS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; VESSEL CLASSIFICATION;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 36248997694     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.708469     Document Type: Conference Paper

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