Automatic conjunctival provocation test combining Hough circle transform and self-calibrated color measurements

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8670, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Bista, Suman Raj ^a,b   Sárándi, István ^a   Dogan, Serkan ^c   Astvatsatourov, Anatoli ^c   Mösges, Ralph ^c   Deserno, Thomas M ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allergic rhinitis; Color analysis; Computer assisted diagnosis (CAD); Conjunctival provocation test (CPT); Hough transform; Image based endpoint; Surrogate endpoint

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC RHINITIS; COLOR ANALYSIS; CONJUNCTIVAL PROVOCATION TEST (CPT); IMAGE-BASED; SURROGATE ENDPOINT;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

COLOR;

EID: 84878421830     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2007821     Document Type: Conference Paper

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