Retinal vessel axis estimation through a multi-directional graph search approach

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 137-140

  Poletti, E ^a   Fiorin, D ^a   Grisan, E ^a   Ruggeri, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fundus images; Image segmentation; Shortest path; Vessel tracking

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOPHYSICS; BLOOD VESSELS; DIAGNOSIS; GRAPH ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATCHED FILTERS; MEDICAL PHYSICS; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; AVERAGE SENSITIVITIES; FUNDUS IMAGE; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; SHORTEST PATH; TRACKING TECHNIQUES; VASCULAR STRUCTURES; VESSEL TRACKING;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 77950138512     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03891-4_37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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