Segmentation of retinal vessels with a hysteresis binary-classification paradigm

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 325-335

  Condurache, Alexandru Paul ^a   Mertins, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binary classification; Feature selection; Hysteresis methods; Image segmentation; Retina vessels; Vessel enhancement

Indexed keywords

BINARY CLASSIFICATION; BINARY CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS; DESIGN PARADIGM; FEATURE SPACE; HYSTERESIS METHOD; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL FEATURE VECTORS; ORIGINAL IMAGES; RETINA VESSELS; RETINAL VESSELS; SURGERY PLANNING; VESSEL ENHANCEMENT; VESSEL SEGMENTATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; HYSTERESIS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PIXELS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLASSIFICATION; DATA BASE; HYSTERESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; VECTOR CONTROL;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHOTOGRAPHY; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 84860288003     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: 18790771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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