Retinal blood vessel segmentation by means of scale-space analysis and region growing

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1679, Issue , 1999, Pages 90-97

  Elena Martinez Perez M ^a   Hughes, Alun D ^a   Stanton, Alice V ^a   Thom, Simon A ^a   Bharath, Anil A ^a   Parker, Kim H ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

GRADIENT MAGNITUDE; INTENSITY IMAGES; LOCAL MAXIMUM; PRINCIPAL CURVATURE; REGION GROWING; RETINAL BLOOD VESSELS; SCALE-SPACE ANALYSIS; SECOND DERIVATIVES;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 84957086185     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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