Fast retinal vessel tree extraction: A pixel parallel approach

International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 641-651

  Alonso Montes, C ^a   Vilarino D L ^b   Dudek, P ^c   Penedo, M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active contours; Cellular arrays; Parallel processing; Vessel segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HEALTH; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PIXELS;

ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE; COMPUTATION EFFORT; COMPUTATION SPEEDS; DISEASE DIAGNOSIS; EXECUTION TIME; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PIXEL PARALLEL; PROCESSOR ARRAYS; TREE EXTRACTION;

EYE PROTECTION;

EID: 47749147346     PISSN: 00989886     EISSN: 1097007X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cta.512     Document Type: Article

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