VE-LLI-VO: Vessel enhancement using local line integrals and variational optimization

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1912-1924

  Yuan, Yuan ^a   Luo, Yishan ^a   Chung, Albert C S ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Retinal images; vessel enhancement

Indexed keywords

DIRECTION ESTIMATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENVECTORS; HESSIAN MATRICES; LINE INTEGRALS; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; RETINAL IMAGE; SECOND ORDERS; STRAIGHT LINES; SYNTHETIC IMAGES; VARIATIONAL OPTIMIZATION; VESSEL ENHANCEMENT; VESSEL MODEL; VESSEL SEGMENTATION; VESSEL SEGMENTS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; VISUALIZATION;

CURVE FITTING;

ALGORITHM; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ALGORITHMS; AREA UNDER CURVE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETINAL VESSELS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 79959575670     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2010.2097269     Document Type: Article

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