A fast, efficient and automated method to extract vessels from fundus images

Journal of Visualization

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 263-270

  Villalobos Castaldi, Fabiola M ^a   Felipe Riverón, Edgardo M ^a   Sánchez Fernández, Luis P ^a  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Blood vessel network; Co occurrence matrix; Entropy thresholding; Fast automated analysis; Image segmentation; Retinal image analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864987495     PISSN: 13438875     EISSN: 18758975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12650-010-0037-y     Document Type: Article

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