Measurement of retinal vessel widths from fundus images based on 2-D modeling

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1196-1204

  Lowell, James ^a   Hunter, Andrew ^a   Steel, David ^b   Basu, Ansu ^c   Ryder, Robert ^c   Kennedy, R Lee ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^b SUNDERLAND EYE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DISEASES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; RISKS;

COLOR DIGITAL IMAGES; HYPERTENSION; REGION OF INTEREST (ROI); VASCULAR PATHOLOGY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL VESSELS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 6344235120     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.830524     Document Type: Article

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