Retina Vessel Map Extraction

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Retina Vessel Map Extraction

• Yuexiong Tao (Author)
• Mei Wu (Presenter)
• Faculty of Computer Science
• Dalhousie University

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Motivation

• Blood vessel appearance is an indicator for many
  diagnoses, including diabetes, hypertension,
  arteriosclerosis.
• It can also be used for treatment evaluation,
  patient screening and clinical study.

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Perceptual Organization Based Method in Retina
Vessel Extraction

• An image can be represented by vessel segments
  and edge junctions.

Vessel segment and junction of edge trace map
Original retina image
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Feature Structures
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Detailed Steps for Breaking/Junction Detection
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