Blood vessels segmentation in nonmydriatic images using wavelets and statistical classifiers

Brazilian Symposium of Computer Graphic and Image Processing

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 262-269

  Leandro, J J G ^a   Soares, J V B ^a   Cesar, R M ^a   Jelinek, H F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomedical imaging; Blood vessels; Continuous wavelet transforms; Filtering; Image analysis; Image segmentation; Optical filters; Optical noise; Pattern analysis; Pixel

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FILTRATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION FILTERING; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL FILTERS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PIXELS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORM; OPTICAL NOISE; PATTERN ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION TECHNIQUES; SPECIFIC FREQUENCIES; STATISTICAL CLASSIFIER; SUPERVISED CLASSIFIERS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 51049120093     PISSN: 15301834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIBGRA.2003.1241018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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