Spline-based refinement of vessel contours in fundus retinal images for width estimation

Alessandro Cavinato; Lucia Ballerini; Emanuele Trucco; Enrico Grisan

doi:10.1109/ISBI.2013.6556614

Spline-based refinement of vessel contours in fundus retinal images for width estimation

Alessandro Cavinato, Lucia Ballerini, Emanuele Trucco, Enrico Grisan

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This paper presents a novel algorithm for refining the vessel contours obtained from retinal binary vessel maps. The refinement improves vessel width estimation. Our approach is based on fitting the two contours of each vessel in the binary map with a cubic spline curve, introducing a parallelism constraint between the two splines. The algorithm, evaluated on the REVIEW database, has a comparable accuracy to that of specialized, sophisticated width estimation algorithms. © 2013 IEEE.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2013))
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	872-875
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9781467364560
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2013.6556614
Publication status	Published - 2013

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Spline-based refinement of vessel contours in fundus retinal images for width estimation. / Cavinato, Alessandro; Ballerini, Lucia; Trucco, Emanuele et al.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2013)). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2013. p. 872-875.

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