Segmentation of Retinal Blood Vessels Based on the Second Directional Derivative and Region Growing.
M. Elena Martínez-PérezAlun D. HughesAlice V. StantonSimon A. ThomAnil A. BharathKim H. ParkerPublished in: ICIP (2) (1999)
Keyphrases
- region growing
- segmentation method
- image segmentation
- segmentation algorithm
- brain mri
- region merging
- edge information
- edge detection
- color image segmentation
- vessel segmentation
- segmentation result
- image segmentation algorithm
- retinal blood vessels
- seeded region growing
- segmented images
- seed points
- retinal images
- seed selection
- region competition
- watershed transform
- active contour model
- object segmentation
- multiscale
- som neural network
- automatic segmentation
- higher order
- final segmentation
- boundary estimation
- homogeneous regions
- computer vision
- medical imaging
- region segmentation
- active contours