Fast vessel segmentation in retinal images using multi-scale enhancement and second-order local entropy

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8315, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Yu, H ^a,b   Barriga, S ^a,b   Agurto, C ^a,b   Zamora, G ^a   Bauman, W ^c   Soliz, P ^a  

^a VisionQuest Biomedical   (United States)

^b MSC01 1070   (United States)

^c Retina Institute of South Texas   (United States)

Author keywords

Entropy; Morphology; Retinal imaging; Vessel enhancement; Vessel segmentation

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; BLOOD VESSEL SEGMENTATION; FAST IMPLEMENTATION; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; RETINAL BLOOD VESSELS; RETINAL IMAGING; VESSEL ENHANCEMENT; VESSEL SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ENTROPY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MORPHOLOGY; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84870815859     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.911547     Document Type: Conference Paper

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