Automatic corneal nerves recognition for earlier diagnosis and follow-up of diabetic neuropathy

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6112 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2010, Pages 60-69

  Ferreira, Ana ^a   Morgado, António Miguel ^a,b   Silva, José Silvestre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

confocal microscopy; Corneal nerves; diabetic neuropathy; image segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ALGORITHMS; AVERAGE DIFFERENCE; CHRONIC DISABILITY; CORNEAL NERVES; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIABETIC PATIENT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HESSIAN MATRICES; LOCAL METHODS; MANUAL TRACKING; MORPHOMETRIC PARAMETERS; PHASE-SHIFT ANALYSIS; RUNNING TIME;

ALGORITHMS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; TRACKING (POSITION);

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77955397257     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13775-4_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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