Improving hard exudate detection in retinal images through a combination of local and contextual information

2010 7th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5-8

  Sanchez C I ^a,b   Niemeijer, M ^a   Suttorp Schulten, M S A ^b   Abramoff M ^c   Van Ginneken, B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ONZE LIEVE VROUWE GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computer aided detection; Contextual information; Hard exudates; Retinal images

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL LANDMARKS; CAD SYSTEM; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; FIGURE OF MERIT; GLOBAL IMAGE INFORMATION; HARD EXUDATES; LOCAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; RETINAL IMAGE; SPATIAL RELATIONS;

MACROS; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 77955181097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2010.5490429     Document Type: Conference Paper

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