Parabolic modeling of the major temporal arcade in retinal fundus images

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1825-1838

  Oloumi, Faraz ^a   Rangayyan, Rangaraj M ^a   Ells, Anna L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood vessels; fundus images; Gabor filters; Hough transform; parabolic modeling; retina; retinopathy; temporal arcade

Indexed keywords

FUNDUS IMAGE; MANUAL ANALYSIS; MEAN DISTANCES; PARABOLIC FORM; RETINA; RETINAL IMAGE; RETINAL VESSELS; RETINOPATHY; TEMPORAL ARCADE; VESSEL EXTRACTION;

ARCHES; BLOOD VESSELS; EYE PROTECTION; GABOR FILTERS; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 84862295253     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2012.2192339     Document Type: Article

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