Detection of optic disc in retinal images by means of a geometrical model of vessel structure

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1189-1195

  Foracchia, M ^a,b   Grisan, E ^a   Ruggeri, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b M2 Scientific Computing   (Italy)

Author keywords

Geometrical model; Optic disc; Retinal images; Simulated annealing; Vessel tracking

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DISK STORAGE; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SET THEORY; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

OPTIC DISC; OPTIC NERVE; RETINAL IMAGES; VESSEL TRACKING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; 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; OPTIC DISK; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VALIDATION STUDY; VASCULARIZATION;

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

EID: 6344293833     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.829331     Document Type: Article

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