Detection of blood vessels in the retina using gabor filters

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 717-720

  Rangayyan, Rangaraj M ^a   Oloumi, Faraz ^a   Oloumi, Foad ^a   Eshghzadeh Zanjani, Peyman ^a   Ayres, Fábio J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HEALTH; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; WAVE FILTERS;

DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING; ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING (ECE); GABOR FILTERING; HIGH EFFICIENCY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC (ROC); VASCULAR ARCHITECTURE; VISUAL SYSTEMS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 48749109207     PISSN: 08407789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCECE.2007.184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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