Blood vessel segmentation from color retinal images using unsupervised texture classification

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bhuiyan, Alauddin ^a   Nath, Baikunth ^a   Chua, Joselito ^a   Kotagiri, Ramamohanarao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

FCM clustering; Gabor energy filter bank; Image segmentation; Medical Image; Texture classification

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COLOR; DIAGNOSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GABOR FILTERS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGE TEXTURE; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

BLOOD VESSEL SEGMENTATION; COLOR RETINAL IMAGES; FCM CLUSTERING; FUZZY C-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; GABOR ENERGY FILTERS; PERCEPTUALLY UNIFORM COLOR SPACES; TEXTURE CLASSIFICATION; TEXTURE FEATURE EXTRACTION;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 48149094380     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2007.4379880     Document Type: Conference Paper

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