Detection of exudates in retinal images using a pure splitting technique

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 6745-6748

  Jaafar, Hussain F ^a   Nandi, Asoke K ^a   Al Nuaimy, Waleed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING; AUTOMATED METHODS; COARSE SEGMENTATION; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; GROUND TRUTH; IMAGE PIXELS; LOCAL VARIATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; NOVEL ALGORITHM; QUALITY VARIABILITY; REFERENCE STANDARD; RETINAL IMAGE; SPLITTING TECHNIQUES;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; EYE PROTECTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXUDATE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RETINA;

ALGORITHMS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETINA;

EID: 78650847818     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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