Application of morphological bit planes in retinal blood vessel extraction

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 274-286

  M Fraz, M ^a   Basit, A ^b   Barman, S A ^a  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Biomedical image analysis; Bit planes; Image segmentation; Medical imaging; Morphological processing; Retinal images; Retinal vessel segmentation

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; OPHTHALMOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

BIOMEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; BIT PLANES; MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSING; RETINAL IMAGE; RETINAL VESSEL SEGMENTATIONS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA VEIN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL VEIN; RETINAL VESSELS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84880957778     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-012-9513-3     Document Type: Article

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