Optic disc localization in retinal images using histogram matching

Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Dehghani, Amin ^a   Moghaddam, Hamid Abrishami ^a   Moin, Mohammad Shahram ^b  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b Research Institute for ICT   (Iran)

Author keywords

Diabetes; DRIVE and STARE dataset; Identification algorithms; Optic disc', Retinal image

Indexed keywords

COLOR COMPONENT; DISEASE DIAGNOSTICS; HISTOGRAM MATCHING; IDENTIFICATION ALGORITHMS; OPTIC DISC LOCALIZATION; RECOGNITION ALGORITHM; RETINAL IMAGE; VESSEL SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; DIAGNOSIS; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

IMAGE MATCHING;

EID: 84887032495     PISSN: 16875176     EISSN: 16875281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1687-5281-2012-19     Document Type: Article

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