Computation of tortuosity of two dimensional vessels

ICAPR 2015 - 2015 8th International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Makkapati, Vishnu Vardhan ^a   Ravi, Vishnu Vardhan Chetlur ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b Mindspace Cyberabad   (India)

Author keywords

Branches; retinal images; retinopathy of prematurity; tortuosity; vessel segmentation

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

BRANCHES; RETINAL IMAGE; RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY; TORTUOSITY; VESSEL SEGMENTATION;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 84925652132     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICAPR.2015.7050711     Document Type: Conference Paper

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