Modeling the tortuosity of retinal vessels: Does caliber play a role?

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2239-2247

  Trucco, Emanuele ^a   Azegrouz, Hind ^b   Dhillon, Baljean ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CNIC   (Spain)

^c PRINCESS ALEXANDRA EYE PAVILION   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automated; curvature; retinal; screening; tortuosity; vasculature properties

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED; CURVATURE; RETINAL; TORTUOSITY; VASCULATURE;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; EXTRACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE QUALITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; THICKNESS; TORTUOSITY;

FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 77955871117     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2050771     Document Type: Article

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