An automatic hybrid method for retinal blood vessel extraction

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 399-407

  Yang, Yong ^a,b   Huang, Shuying ^b   Rao, Nini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Blood vessel extraction; Fuzzy clustering; Mathematical morphology; Retinal image

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; FLOW OF SOLIDS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; PURIFICATION;

BACKGROUND INFORMATION; BLOOD VESSEL EXTRACTION; CHALLENGING TASK; FUZZY CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; FUZZY SEGMENTATION; HYBRID METHODS; MEDICAL ANALYSIS; RETINAL BLOOD VESSEL; RETINAL IMAGE; RETINAL IMAGE VESSELS; RETINAL IMAGING; SEGMENTATION METHODS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 53749090203     PISSN: 1641876X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10006-008-0036-5     Document Type: Article

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