Curvature orientation histograms for detection and matching of vascular landmarks in retinal images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7259, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ram, Keerthi ^a   Babu, Yogesh ^a   Sivaswamy, Jayanthi ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Landmarks; Registration; Retinal images

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOUR CHANGES; DATA SETS; DESCRIPTORS; GRAY-SCALE IMAGES; HIGH DISPERSION; INTEREST POINTS; LANDMARK DETECTION; MEDICAL IMAGES; ORIENTATION HISTOGRAMS; PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES; PLANAR CURVES; POINT-BASED; PRIMAL SKETCH; PUBLIC DOMAINS; RETINAL IMAGE; RETINAL VESSELS; RIGID TRANSFORMATIONS; SURFACE CURVATURES;

CURVE FITTING; EYE PROTECTION; GRAPH THEORY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 71749112090     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.811362     Document Type: Conference Paper

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