Blood vessels and feature points detection on retinal images

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 2246-2249

  Ardizzone, Edoardo ^a   Pirrone, Roberto ^a   Gambino, Orazio ^a   Radosta, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; MATCHED FILTERS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE; AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; FEATURE POINTS DETECTIONS; GAUSSIAN PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS; ILLUMINATION COMPONENTS; PROJECT DATABASE; SEGMENTED IMAGES; STRUCTURED ANALYSIS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 61849116370     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649643     Document Type: Conference Paper

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