Assessment of vessel tortuosity in retinal images of preterm infants

2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 5410-5413

  Oloumi, Faraz ^a   Rangayyan, Rangaraj M ^a   Ells, Anna L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; GABOR FILTERS; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

ANGLE VARIATION; MORPHOLOGICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; PRETERM INFANTS; RETINAL FUNDUS IMAGES; RETINAL IMAGE; RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY; VESSEL SEGMENTS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ARTERY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DATA BASE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; JOINT INSTABILITY; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREMATURITY; RETINA; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SKIN DISEASES, GENETIC; VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS;

ARTERIES; DATABASES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; JOINT INSTABILITY; RETINA; RETINAL VESSELS; SKIN DISEASES, GENETIC; VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS;

EID: 84929485613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944849     Document Type: Conference Paper

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