A novel automatic image processing algorithm for detection of hard exudates based on retinal image analysis

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 350-357

  Sánchez, Clara I ^a   Hornero, Roberto ^a   López, María I ^a   Aboy, Mateo ^b   Poza, Jesús ^a   Abásolo, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b OREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetic retinopathy; Hard exudates; Image processing; Retinal images

Indexed keywords

COLOR VISION; COLORIMETRIC ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; IMAGE PROCESSING; LINEAR EQUATIONS;

HARD EXUDATES; IMAGE BASED CLASSIFICATION; LESION BASED PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; RETINAL IMAGES; RETINOPATHY;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FISHER EXACT TEST; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA EXUDATE; RETINA IMAGE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 39849094176     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2007.04.010     Document Type: Article

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