A coarse-to-fine strategy for automatically detecting exudates in color eye fundus images

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 228-235

  Welfer, Daniel ^a   Scharcanski, Jacob ^a   Marinho, Diane Ruschel ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Color image analysis; Diabetic macular edema; Exudate detection; Eye fundus image analysis; Mathematical morphology

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC METHOD; COARSE-TO-FINE STRATEGY; COLOR IMAGE ANALYSIS; EXUDATE DETECTION; EYE FUNDUS; MACULAR EDEMA; PUBLIC DATABASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COLOR; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY;

MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; EYE COLOR; EYE FUNDUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA EXUDATE; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA IMAGE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACULAR EDEMA;

EID: 77049104262     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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