A modular supervised algorithm for vessel segmentation in red-free retinal images

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 913-922

  Anzalone, Andrea ^a   Bizzarri, Federico ^a   Parodi, Mauro ^a   Storace, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blood vessel segmentation; Optimization; Retinal imaging; Retinal vasculature mapping; Supervised algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHM PARAMETERS; HUMAN RETINA; IMAGE FEATURES; K VALUES; OPTIMAL VALUES; PROCESSING SPEEDS; RETINAL IMAGING; SIMULATION RESULTS; VESSEL SEGMENTATION;

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA IMAGE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; PHOTOGRAPHY; RETINAL VESSELS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

MOPS;

EID: 48349088170     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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