Segmentation of retinal blood vessels using the radial projection and semi-supervised approach

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 44, Issue 10-11, 2011, Pages 2314-2324

  You, Xinge ^a   Peng, Qinmu ^a   Yuan, Yuan ^b   Cheung, Yiu Ming ^c   Lei, Jiajia ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

^c HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Radial projection; Retinal images; Steerable complex wavelet

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CENTERLINES; COMPLEX WAVELETS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENT PROCESS; DIFFERENT SCALE; FALSE DETECTIONS; LINE STRENGTH; LOW CONTRAST; PROJECTION METHOD; RADIAL PROJECTION; RETINAL BLOOD VESSELS; RETINAL IMAGE; RETINAL VESSELS; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SELF-TRAINING; SEMI-SUPERVISED; SEMI-SUPERVISED METHOD; THIN VESSELS;

BLOOD; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PARTIAL DISCHARGES;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 79958792462     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2011.01.007     Document Type: Article

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