SEGMENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF RETINAL VASCULAR TREE FROM FUNDUS IMAGES PROCESSING

Sandra Morales, Valery Naranjo, Jesús Angulo, Juan José Fuertes, Mariano Alcañiz

2012

Abstract

From a fundus image, the system proposed in this paper automatically detects retinal vessels and measures some geometrical properties on them such as caliber and bifurcation angles. Its goal is to establish objective relations between different vessels, thus being able to determine cardiovascular risk or other diseases, as well as to monitor their progression and response to different treatments. The proposed approach is mainly based on mathematical morphology although also incorporates curvature evaluation for the detection of retinal vascular tree. This method has been validated on a public database improving the results of previous published methods.

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Morales S., Naranjo V., Angulo J., José Fuertes J. and Alcañiz M. (2012). SEGMENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF RETINAL VASCULAR TREE FROM FUNDUS IMAGES PROCESSING . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2012) ISBN 978-989-8425-89-8, pages 321-324. DOI: 10.5220/0003704603210324


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@conference{biosignals12,
author={Sandra Morales and Valery Naranjo and Jesús Angulo and Juan José Fuertes and Mariano Alcañiz},
title={SEGMENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF RETINAL VASCULAR TREE FROM FUNDUS IMAGES PROCESSING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={321-324},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003704603210324},
isbn={978-989-8425-89-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2012)
TI - SEGMENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF RETINAL VASCULAR TREE FROM FUNDUS IMAGES PROCESSING
SN - 978-989-8425-89-8
AU - Morales S.
AU - Naranjo V.
AU - Angulo J.
AU - José Fuertes J.
AU - Alcañiz M.
PY - 2012
SP - 321
EP - 324
DO - 10.5220/0003704603210324