Ant Colony based Feature Selection Heuristics for Retinal Vessel Segmentation.
Ahmed H. AsadAhmad Taher AzarNashwa El-BendaryAboul Ella HassanienPublished in: CoRR (2014)
Keyphrases
- ant colony
- vessel segmentation
- retinal images
- blood vessels
- feature selection
- ant colony algorithm
- ant colony optimization
- optimisation algorithm
- genetic algorithm
- mutual information
- low contrast
- vessel enhancement
- region growing
- machine learning
- feature space
- search algorithm
- region of interest
- preprocessing step
- ant colonies
- ant colony optimisation
- dimensionality reduction
- optic disc
- model selection
- image analysis
- mathematical model
- metaheuristic
- multiscale
- feature extraction
- neural network