Blood Vessel Segmentation in Retinal Images
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Segmentation of blood vessels in retinal images allows early diagnosis of disease; automating this process provides several benefits including minimizing subjectivity and eliminating a painstaking, tedious task. Previous approaches, while satisfactory in some cases, still leave room for improvement, especially in abnormal retinal images. We propose to utilize a tracking based algorithm based on level sets and fast marching methods.
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