An automated tracking approach for extraction of retinal vasculature in fundus images

Journal of Ophthalmic and Vision Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 20-26

  Osareh, Alireza ^a   Shadgar, Bita ^a  

^a SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY OF AHVAZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Blood vessel extraction; Neural networks; Pixel classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650389784     PISSN: 20082010     EISSN: 2008322X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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