Vessel segmentation based on Sobel operator and fuzzy reasoning

2011 1st International eConference on Computer and Knowledge Engineering, ICCKE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 189-194

  Ghadiri, Farnoosh ^a   Akbarzadeh T, Mohammad R ^a   Haddadan, Shohre ^a  

^a FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fuzzy inference; Genetic algorithm; Radon transform; Sobel operator

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTORS; FUZZY REASONING; FUZZY THEORY; GRADIENT INFORMATIONS; LINEAR STRUCTURES; MORPHOLOGICAL ALGORITHMS; RADON TRANSFORM; SOBEL OPERATOR; VALIDATION PROCESS; VESSEL DETECTION; VESSEL SEGMENTATION;

BLOOD VESSELS; FUZZY INFERENCE; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 84874331334     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCKE.2011.6413349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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