Automated analysis of retinal vascular network connectivity

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 462-470

  Al Diri, Bashir ^a   Hunter, Andrew ^a   Steel, David ^b   Habib, Maged ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^b SUNDERLAND EYE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Connectivity of segmented retinal vessels; Junction resolution; Overlapping segments; Retinal vascular segmentation; Retinal vessel graph; Self organized feature maps

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; FEATURE MAP; NETWORK CONNECTIVITY; PUBLIC DOMAINS; RETINAL VESSELS; SELF ORGANIZING FEATURE MAPS; SELF-ORGANIZED; VASCULAR NETWORK;

ALGORITHMS; COST FUNCTIONS; EYE PROTECTION; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 77954386711     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2009.12.013     Document Type: Article

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