Topological vascular tree segmentation for retinal images using shortest path connection

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2137-2140

  Chen, Li ^a   Ju, YaoYong ^a   Ding, Sheng ^a   Liu, XiaoMing ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

feature extraction; Image registration

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS SYSTEMS; FALSE DETECTIONS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MULTISCALES; NOVEL ALGORITHM; OPTIMAL PATHS; PATH METRIC; RETINAL IMAGE; SHORTEST PATH; SHORTEST PATH ALGORITHMS; TOPOLOGICAL FEATURES; VASCULAR TREE SEGMENTATION; VASCULAR TREES;

ALGORITHMS; DETECTORS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FORESTRY; IMAGE REGISTRATION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PIXELS; TOPOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHMS; DETECTORS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICS; TREES;

EID: 84863045692     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2011.6116032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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