A new blood vessel extraction technique using edge enhancement and object classification

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1107-1115

  Badsha, Shahriar ^a   Reza, Ahmed Wasif ^a   Tan, Kim Geok ^b   Dimyati, Kaharudin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^c NATIONAL DEFENCE UNIVERSITY OF MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Diabetic retinopathy; Image processing; Kirsch's template; Object classification; Vessel detection

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSEL EXTRACTION; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; KIRSCH'S TEMPLATE; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; OBJECT CLASSIFICATION; ROBUST PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; VESSEL DETECTION;

EYE PROTECTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ALGORITHMS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RETINAL VESSELS; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84888200662     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-013-9585-8     Document Type: Article

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