Retinal vessel segmentation on SLO image

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 2258-2261

  Xu, Juan ^a   Ishikawa, Hiroshi ^a,b   Wollstein, Gadi ^a   Schuman, Joel S ^a,b  

^a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybrid algorithm; Retina; SLO image; Vessel segmentation

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MATCHED FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PROBES; SCANNING;

CLINICAL APPLICATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HYBRID ALGORITHMS; RETINA; RETINAL VESSEL SEGMENTATIONS; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SLO IMAGE; VESSEL SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; RETINAL VESSELS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 61849152012     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649646     Document Type: Conference Paper

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