An improved system for the automatic estimation of the Arteriolarto-Venular diameter Ratio (AVR) in 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 3550-3553

  Tramontan, Lara ^a   Grisan, Enrico ^a   Ruggeri, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ARTERIOLAR-TO-VENULAR DIAMETER RATIOS; AUTOMATIC ESTIMATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; POSTPROCESSING ALGORITHMS; VESSEL NETWORKS; VESSEL STRUCTURE; VESSEL TRACKING;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA VEIN; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CAPILLARIES; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROCIRCULATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL VEIN;

EID: 61849170156     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649972     Document Type: Conference Paper

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