Enhancement of nailfold capillaroscopy images

Proceedings - IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics: Global Grand Challenge of Health Informatics, BHI 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 452-455

  Doshi, Niraj P ^a   Schaefer, Gerald ^a   Merla, Arcangelo ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED IMAGE ANALYSIS; BILATERAL FILTERS; BLOOD CAPILLARY; MANUAL INSPECTION; MEDICAL IMAGES; NON-INVASIVE IMAGING;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; BIOSENSORS; CAPILLARITY; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

MICROCIRCULATION;

EID: 84864188566     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BHI.2012.6211614     Document Type: Conference Paper

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