An enhanced segmentation of blood vessels in retinal images using Contourlet

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3530-3533

  Rezatofighi, S H ^a   Roodaki, A ^a   Noubari, H Ahmadi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

ADAPTIVE NEURO-FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEM; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CONTOURLET TRANSFORM; LOCAL BINARY PATTERNS; LOW DYNAMIC RANGE; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; MULTISCALE METHOD; RETINAL BLOOD VESSELS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; RETINAL VESSELS; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 61849096208     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649967     Document Type: Conference Paper

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