Detection of the optic disc in images of the retina using the Hough transform

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 3546-3549

  Zhu, Xiaolu ^a   Rangayyan, Rangaraj M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOUGH TRANSFORMS;

CANNY EDGE DETECTORS; DETECTION OF CIRCLES; FUNDUS IMAGES; OPTIC DISCS; SOBEL OPERATORS;

EDGE DETECTION;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EYE FUNDUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LASER; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; OPTIC DISK; PATHOLOGY; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTIC DISK; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 61849135437     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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