Fast localization and segmentation of optic disk in retinal images using directional matched filtering and level sets

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 644-657

  Yu, H ^a   Barriga, E S ^a   Agurto, C ^b   Echegaray, S ^c   Pattichis, M S ^b   Bauman, W ^d   Soliz, P ^a  

^a VisionQuest Biomedical   (United States)

^b University of New Mexico   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d Retina Institute of South Texas   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic eye disease screening; level set segmentation; optic disk (OD) localization; parameter optimization

Indexed keywords

A-FRAMES; CLINICAL SETTINGS; EYE DISEASE; ITS EFFICIENCIES; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET SEGMENTATION; LEVEL-SET MODEL; LOCAL GRADIENTS; MATCHED FILTERING; MEAN ABSOLUTE DISTANCE; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERING; OPTIC DISKS; OPTIC NERVE; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; REFERENCE STANDARD; RETINAL DISEASE; RETINAL IMAGE; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION SCHEME;

BLOOD VESSELS; EYE PROTECTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; OPTIC DISK; RETINA DISEASE; VASCULARIZATION; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

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

EID: 84863527422     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2012.2198668     Document Type: Article

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