An efficient algorithm for retinal blood vessel segmentation using h-maxima transform and multilevel thresholding

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 517-525

  Saleh, Marwan D ^a   Eswaran, C ^a  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Blood vessel segmentation; Contrast enhancement; Diabetic retinopathy; h maxima transform; Multilevel thresholding

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY RATE; AUTOMATED ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSEL SEGMENTATION; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; MULTILEVEL THRESHOLDING; RETINAL BLOOD VESSELS; THRESHOLDING;

BLOOD VESSELS; DIAGNOSIS; EYE PROTECTION; IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 84860780532     PISSN: 10255842     EISSN: 14768259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2010.545949     Document Type: Article

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