Accurate and efficient optic disc detection and segmentation by a circular transformation

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2126-2133

  Lu, Shijian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Circular transformation; ocular image analysis; optic disc detection; optic disc segmentation

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR SHAPE; CIRCULAR TRANSFORMATION; DATA SETS; DEGRADED IMAGES; DETECTION ACCURACY; IMAGE VARIATIONS; OCULAR IMAGES; OPTIC DISC; RADIAL LINE; RETINAL IMAGE; SEGMENTATION ACCURACY; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; ERROR DETECTION; PIXELS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OPTIC DISK; PATHOLOGY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OPTIC DISK;

EID: 82455221060     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2011.2164261     Document Type: Article

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