Robust optic disc location via combination of weak detectors

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 3542-3545

  Perez Rovira, Adria ^a   Trucco, Emanuele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHES; BLOOD VESSELS;

ANATOMICAL CONSTRAINT; AUTOMATIC LOCATION; DETECTION RATES; HEALTHY RETINAS; OPTIC DISC; PATHOLOGICAL LESIONS; ROBUST APPROACHES; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE;

LOCATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; RETINAL VESSELS; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 61849121901     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649970     Document Type: Conference Paper

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