Evaluation of retinal vessel segmentation methods for microaneurysms detection

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3365-3368

  Martins, C I O ^a   Medeiros, F N S ^b   Veras, R M S ^b   Bezerra, F N ^c   Cesar Jr , R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO FEDERAL DE EDUCAÇÃO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diabetic retinopathy; Entropic thresholding; Mathematical morphology; Microaneurysms; Vessel segmentation; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

EYE PROTECTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MORPHOLOGY; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

ALGORITHM DESIGN; AUTOMATIC SCREENING; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; ENTROPIC THRESHOLDING; MICROANEURYSMS; POSTERIOR ANALYSIS; REGION GROWING; RETINAL IMAGE; RETINAL VESSELS; VASCULAR SYSTEM; VESSEL SEGMENTATION;

MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 77951966334     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2009.5413892     Document Type: Conference Paper

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