Segmentation of retinal blood vessels based on transition region extraction

Tien Tzu Hsueh Pao/Acta Electronica Sinica

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 974-978

  Yao, Chang ^a   Chen, Hou Jin ^a   Li, Ju Peng ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blood vessel segmentation; Distributed genetic algorithm; Optimal entropy; Otsu; Transition region

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

BLOOD VESSEL SEGMENTATION; DISTRIBUTED GENETIC ALGORITHM; DISTRIBUTED GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GAUSSIAN; LOW CONTRAST; MATCHED FILTERING; MIGRATION STRATEGIES; OPTIMAL ENTROPY; OTSU; RETINAL BLOOD VESSEL; RETINAL BLOOD VESSELS; RETINAL IMAGING; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SMALL VESSELS; TRANSITION REGION;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 45949103265     PISSN: 03722112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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