Blood vessel tracking technique for optic nerve localisation for field 1-3 color fundus images

ICICS-PCM 2003 - Proceedings of the 2003 Joint Conference of the 4th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing and 4th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1437-1441

  Lam, Hwee Keong ^a   Chutatape, Opas ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Fundus image; Matched filter; Optic nerve; Retinal vessel

Indexed keywords

EYE PROTECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATCHED FILTERS; MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CONVERGENCE POINTS; FUNDUS IMAGE; GAUSSIAN FILTERS; INTERCONNECTIVITY; OCULAR FUNDUS IMAGES; OPTIC NERVE; RETINAL VESSELS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 84894884315     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICICS.2003.1292703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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