Automatic optic disc detection from retinal images by a line operator

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 88-94

  Lu, Shijian ^a   Lim, Joo Hwee ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; line operators; optic disc (OD) detection; retinal image analysis

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR SHAPE; DATA SETS; DETECTION ACCURACY; DETECTION TECHNIQUE; EYE DISEASE; IMAGE BRIGHTNESS; IMAGING ARTIFACTS; LINE OPERATORS; LINE SEGMENT; OPTIC DISC; OPTIC DISC (OD) DETECTION; RETINAL IMAGE; RETINAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; SPECIFIC ORIENTATION;

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PIXELS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRIGHTNESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LINE OPERATOR; OPERATOR; OPTIC DISK; RETINA IMAGE; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OPTIC DISK; RETINA;

EID: 79551572459     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2086455     Document Type: Article

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