Phase congruency based retinal vessel segmentation

• Published in: 2009 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics Vol. 4; pp. 2458 - 2462
• Main Authors: Amin, M.A., Hong Yan
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.07.2009
• Subjects: Authentication; Biomedical imaging; Biometrics; Blood vessels; Blood-vessel detection; Diseases; fundus image; Image segmentation; Log-Gabor wavelets; phase congruency; Real time systems; Retina; Retinal vessels; Testing

Detection of blood vessels in a retinal fundus image is the preliminary step to diagnose several retinal diseases. There exist a number of methods to accomplish this task automatically. However, all of these methods suffer from lengthy processing time. The other major use of retina scanning is biome...