Automated measurement of retinal blood vessel tortuosity

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7624, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Joshi, Vinayak ^a   Reinhardt, Joseph M ^a   Abramoff, Michael D ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

blood vessel; curvature; fundus; retina; retinopathy; tortuosity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS; EYE PROTECTION; GRADING; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

CURVATURE; FUNDUS; RETINA; RETINOPATHY; TORTUOSITY;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 79955753165     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844641     Document Type: Conference Paper

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