Joining retinal vessel segments

8th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering, BIBE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Al Diri, Bashir ^a   Hunter, Andrew ^a   Steel, David ^b   Habib, Maged ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^b SUNDERLAND EYE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A self organized feature map; Parametric active contour; Vascular junction; Vascular network

Indexed keywords

A SELF ORGANIZED FEATURE MAP; FEATURE MAP; PARAMETRIC ACTIVE CONTOUR; REFERENCE IMAGE; RETINAL VESSELS; SELF-ORGANIZED; VASCULAR GRAPH; VASCULAR JUNCTION; VASCULAR NETWORK; VESSEL SEGMENTS;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BIOINFORMATICS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; COST FUNCTIONS; GRAPH THEORY; JOINING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 67549136269     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIBE.2008.4696792     Document Type: Conference Paper

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