Automated localization of retinal features

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 3064-3075

  Sekhar, Sribalamurugan ^a   Abd El Samie, Fathi E ^b   Yu, Pan ^a   Al Nuaimy, Waleed ^a   Nandi, Asoke K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS; EYE PROTECTION; GRADING; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

CIRCULAR HOUGH TRANSFORMS; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; GEOMETRIC RELATIONS; RETINAL FUNDUS IMAGES; SCALE-SPACE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EYE FUNDUS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; GLAUCOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPTIC DISK; PATHOLOGY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA FOVEA;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; FUNDUS OCULI; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OPTIC DISK; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 79959926924     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.003064     Document Type: Article

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