Automatic detection of blood vessels in retinal images for diabetic retinopathy diagnosis

Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Siva Sundhara Raja, D ^a   Vasuki, S ^b  

^a SACS MAVMM Engineering College   (India)

^b VELAMMAL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; DIAGNOSIS; EYE PROTECTION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; OPHTHALMOLOGY; VISION;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTERS; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; COMPUTER AIDED; DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS; DIABETIC PATIENT; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; RETINAL BLOOD VESSELS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ADULT; ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTER; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BINARY MORPHOLOGICAL MASK; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETIC PATIENT; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIGITAL FILTERING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIC DISK; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA IMAGE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; DIFFUSION; FACTUAL DATABASE; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIFFUSION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTIC DISK; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; RETINAL VESSELS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84924599430     PISSN: 1748670X     EISSN: 17486718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/419279     Document Type: Article

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