A new and efficient method for automatic optic disc detection using geometrical features

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1131-1134

  Bhuiyan, Alauddin ^a   Kawasaki, Ryo ^a   Wong, Tien Yin ^a   Kotagiri, Rao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gradient operator; Hough transformation; Image calibration; Optic disc; Region growing technique; Retinal anatomical structure

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOPHYSICS; DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL PHYSICS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; GRADIENT OPERATORS; HOUGH TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE CALIBRATION; OPTIC DISC; REGION-GROWING TECHNIQUES;

MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 77950162523     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03882-2_301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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