An experimental assessment of five indices of retinal vessel tortuosity with the RET-TORT public dataset

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 5414-5417

  Lisowska, Aneta ^a   Annunziata, Roberto ^a   Loh, Graeme Kenneth ^b   Karl, David ^b   Trucco, Emanuele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b NINEWELLS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; EYE PROTECTION;

CURVATURE BASED METHODS; DISTANCE MEASURE; EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; NUMBER OF SAMPLES; PUBLIC DATASET; RETINAL VESSELS; SAMPLING RATES;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ARTERY; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; JOINT INSTABILITY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SKIN DISEASE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTERIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JOINT INSTABILITY; RETINAL VESSELS; SKIN DISEASES, GENETIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS;

EID: 84929494104     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944850     Document Type: Conference Paper

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