Morphometric Measurements of The Retinal Vasculature in Fundus Images with Vampire

Biomedical Image Understanding: Methods and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 91-111

  Trucco, Emanuele ^a   Giachetti, Andrea ^b   Ballerini, Lucia ^a   Relan, Devanjali ^c   Cavinato, Alessandro ^a   MacGillivray, Tom ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artery vein classification; Morphometric measurements; Retinal image processing (RIA); Retinal vasculature; VAMPIRE; Vessel width estimation

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; STANDARDIZATION;

MORPHOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; RETINAL IMAGE; RETINAL VASCULATURE; VAMPIRE; WIDTH ESTIMATIONS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 85015570628     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118715321.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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