Blood vessel segmentation in retinal fundus images using Gabor filters, fractional derivatives, and Expectation Maximization.
Hugo Aguirre-RamosJuan Gabriel Aviña-CervantesIvan Cruz-AcevesJosé Ruiz-PinalesSergio LedesmaPublished in: Appl. Math. Comput. (2018)
Keyphrases
- blood vessels
- retinal fundus images
- gabor filters
- optic disc
- texture segmentation
- expectation maximization
- retinal images
- low contrast
- texture analysis
- vessel detection
- em algorithm
- texture features
- bank of gabor filters
- feature vectors
- gabor filtering
- texture feature extraction
- region of interest
- feature extraction
- image segmentation
- gabor features
- grey scale images
- higher order
- texture images
- segmentation algorithm
- maximum likelihood
- multiresolution
- image analysis
- image processing
- finger vein
- pattern recognition