Optic disc detection from normalized digital fundus images by means of a vessels' direction matched filter

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 11-18

  Youssif, Aliaa Abdel Haleim Abdel Razik ^a   Ghalwash, Atef Zaki ^a   Ghoneim, Amr Ahmed Sabry Abdel Rahman ^a  

^a HCI LAB   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Biomedical image processing; Fundus image analysis; Matched filter; Optic disc (OD); Retinal imaging; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; STANDARDS; TELEMEDICINE; WAVE FILTERS;

MATCHED FILTER; OPTIC DISC (OD); RETINAL IMAGING;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL VESSELS; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 37549066262     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2007.900326     Document Type: Article

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