An Automated Blood Vessel Segmentation Algorithm Using Histogram Equalization and Automatic Threshold Selection
This paper focuses on the detection of retinal blood vessels which play a vital role in reducing the proliferative diabetic retinopathy and for preventing the loss of visual capability. The proposed algorithm which takes advantage of the powerful preprocessing techniques such as the contrast enhance...
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| author | Saleh, Marwan D. Eswaran, C. Mueen, Ahmed |
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| description | This paper focuses on the detection of retinal blood vessels which play a vital role in reducing the proliferative diabetic retinopathy and for preventing the loss of visual capability. The proposed algorithm which takes advantage of the powerful preprocessing techniques such as the contrast enhancement and thresholding offers an automated segmentation procedure for retinal blood vessels. To evaluate the performance of the new algorithm, experiments are conducted on 40 images collected from DRIVE database. The results show that the proposed algorithm performs better than the other known algorithms in terms of accuracy. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm being simple and easy to implement, is best suited for fast processing applications. |
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| spelling | mmu-18972011-08-05T07:35:08Z http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/1897/ An Automated Blood Vessel Segmentation Algorithm Using Histogram Equalization and Automatic Threshold Selection Saleh, Marwan D. Eswaran, C. Mueen, Ahmed R Medicine (General) This paper focuses on the detection of retinal blood vessels which play a vital role in reducing the proliferative diabetic retinopathy and for preventing the loss of visual capability. The proposed algorithm which takes advantage of the powerful preprocessing techniques such as the contrast enhancement and thresholding offers an automated segmentation procedure for retinal blood vessels. To evaluate the performance of the new algorithm, experiments are conducted on 40 images collected from DRIVE database. The results show that the proposed algorithm performs better than the other known algorithms in terms of accuracy. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm being simple and easy to implement, is best suited for fast processing applications. 2011-08 Article NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/1897/1/3.pdf Saleh, Marwan D. and Eswaran, C. and Mueen, Ahmed (2011) An Automated Blood Vessel Segmentation Algorithm Using Histogram Equalization and Automatic Threshold Selection. Journal of Digital Imaging, 24 (4). pp. 564-572. ISSN 0897-1889 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10278-010-9302-9 doi:10.1007/s10278-010-9302-9 doi:10.1007/s10278-010-9302-9 |
| spellingShingle | R Medicine (General) Saleh, Marwan D. Eswaran, C. Mueen, Ahmed An Automated Blood Vessel Segmentation Algorithm Using Histogram Equalization and Automatic Threshold Selection |
| title | An Automated Blood Vessel Segmentation Algorithm Using Histogram Equalization and Automatic Threshold Selection |
| title_full | An Automated Blood Vessel Segmentation Algorithm Using Histogram Equalization and Automatic Threshold Selection |
| title_fullStr | An Automated Blood Vessel Segmentation Algorithm Using Histogram Equalization and Automatic Threshold Selection |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Automated Blood Vessel Segmentation Algorithm Using Histogram Equalization and Automatic Threshold Selection |
| title_short | An Automated Blood Vessel Segmentation Algorithm Using Histogram Equalization and Automatic Threshold Selection |
| title_sort | automated blood vessel segmentation algorithm using histogram equalization and automatic threshold selection |
| topic | R Medicine (General) |
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