Multilayered thresholding-based blood vessel segmentation for screening of diabetic retinopathy

Engineering with Computers

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 165-173

  Akram, M Usman ^a   Khan, Shoab A ^b  

^a BAHRIA UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Blood vessels; Diabetic retinopathy; Multilayered thresholding; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSEL SEGMENTATION; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY SCREENING; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; THRESHOLDING; THRESHOLDING TECHNIQUES; WAVELET;

EYE PROTECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 84880572593     PISSN: 01770667     EISSN: 14355663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00366-011-0253-7     Document Type: Article

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