Unsupervised fuzzy based vessel segmentation in pathological digital fundus images

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 849-858

  Kande, Giri Babu ^c   Subbaiah, P Venkata ^a   Savithri, T Satya ^b  

^a Amritasai Institute of Science and Technology   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Fundus; Histogram matching; Matched filter; Retina

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; EYE FUNDUS; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMAN; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA DISEASE;

ALGORITHMS; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL VESSELS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77957551841     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-009-9299-0     Document Type: Article

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