Statistical-based tracking technique for linear structures detection: Application to vessel segmentation in medical images

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 555-558

  Adel, Mouloud ^a   Moussaoui, Aicha ^b   Rasigni, Monique ^a   Bourennane, Salah ^a   Hamami, Latifa ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b ECOLE NATIONALE POLYTECHNIQUE   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Medical images; Retinal vessels; Statistical segmentation

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN SEGMENTATION; LINEAR STRUCTURES; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI PROBABILITIES; MEDICAL IMAGES; RETINAL IMAGE; RETINAL VESSELS; SEGMENTATION METHODS; STATISTICAL SEGMENTATION; TRACKING TECHNIQUES; VESSEL DETECTION; VESSEL SEGMENTATION;

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; EDGE DETECTION; EYE PROTECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 77951827694     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2010.2046697     Document Type: Article

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