Performance enhancement of optic disc boundary detection using active contours via improved homogenization of optic disc region

2nd International Conference on Information and Automation, ICIA 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 264-269

  Vijaya Saradhi, G ^a   Balasubramanian, S ^a   Chandrasekaran, V ^a  

^a SRI SATHYA SAI INSTITUTE OF HIGHER LEARNING   (India)

Author keywords

Active contours; Diabetic retinopathy; Homogenization; Optic disc boundary detection; Retinal fundus image segmentation

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; EYE PROTECTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MECHANIZATION; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL (ACM); ACTIVE CONTOURS; BOUNDARY DETECTION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY (DR); FUNDUS IMAGING; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LAB COLOR SPACE; OPTIC DISC (OD); PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS; RETINAL IMAGING;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 46849083716     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICINFA.2006.374126     Document Type: Conference Paper

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