Automated detection and classification of major retinal vessels for determination of diameter ratio of arteries and veins

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7624, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Muramatsu, Chisako ^a   Hatanaka, Yuji ^b   Iwase, Tatsuhiko ^a   Hara, Takeshi ^a   Fujita, Hiroshi ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHIGA PREFECTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

A V ratio; computer aided diagnosis; hypertensive retinopathy; retinal fundus images

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSELS; DIAGNOSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EDGE DETECTION; EYE PROTECTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

AUTOMATED DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION; HIGH BLOOD PRESSURES; HYPERTENSIVE RETINOPATHY; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; RETINAL BLOOD VESSELS; RETINAL FUNDUS IMAGES; TOP-HAT TRANSFORMATION; VASCULATURE SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 79955758886     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.843898     Document Type: Conference Paper

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