Segmentation of retinal blood vessels based on analysis of the hessian matrix and clustering algorithm

European Signal Processing Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 428-432

  Salem, Nancy M ^a   Salem, Sameh A ^a   Nandi, Asoke K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTERLINES; DATA SETS; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; FUNDUS IMAGE; GROUND TRUTH; HESSIAN MATRICES; PIECE-WISE; RETINAL BLOOD VESSELS; SCALE SPACES; THRESHOLDING; TRUE POSITIVE RATES; UNSUPERVISED METHOD;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 70449653782     PISSN: 22195491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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