A New Heuristic Function of Ant Colony System for Retinal Vessel Segmentation.
Ahmed Hamza AsadAhmad Taher AzarAboul Ella HassanienPublished in: Int. J. Rough Sets Data Anal. (2014)
Keyphrases
- heuristic function
- vessel segmentation
- retinal images
- blood vessels
- heuristic search
- state space
- evaluation function
- search algorithm
- metaheuristic
- hill climbing
- search methods
- search space
- vessel enhancement
- search tree
- initial state
- combinatorial optimization
- solution space
- graph partitioning
- low contrast
- optic disc
- region growing
- region of interest
- branch and bound
- search strategy
- tabu search
- simulated annealing
- markov chain
- medical images
- objective function