Retinal Blood Vessel Extraction by Using Multi-resolution Matched Filtering and Directional Region Growing Segmentation.
Mitsutoshi HimagaDavid UsherJames F. BoycePublished in: MVA (2002)
Keyphrases
- blood vessels
- region growing
- vessel segmentation
- multiresolution
- vessel detection
- segmentation method
- retinal vessel
- retinal images
- vessel enhancement
- low contrast
- segmentation algorithm
- image segmentation
- brain mri
- edge information
- region merging
- edge detection
- cross sectional
- watershed transform
- image segmentation algorithm
- color image segmentation
- segmentation result
- homogeneous regions
- magnetic resonance angiography
- seeded region growing
- retinal fundus images
- initial segmentation
- final segmentation
- optic disc
- object segmentation
- fundus images
- region competition
- segmented images
- wavelet transform
- seed selection
- diabetic retinopathy
- fuzzy connectedness
- seed points
- active contour model
- region of interest
- boundary information
- boundary estimation
- level set