Detection of the optic nerve head in fundus images of the retina using the hough transform for circles

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 332-341

  Zhu, Xiaolu ^a   Rangayyan, Rangaraj M ^a   Ells, Anna L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canny method; FROC analysis; Fundus images; Hough transform; Optic nerve head (ONH); Retinal images; Sobel operators

Indexed keywords

CANNY METHOD; FUNDUS IMAGE; OPTIC NERVE HEAD; RETINAL IMAGE; SOBEL OPERATOR;

EYE PROTECTION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; STATISTICAL TESTS;

EDGE DETECTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EYE FUNDUS; HUMAN; OPTIC DISK; RADIOGRAPHY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OPTIC DISK;

EID: 77952237982     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-009-9189-5     Document Type: Article

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