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An efficient algorithm for retinal blood vessel segmentation using h-maxima transform and multilevel thresholding

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  • Marwan Saleh
  • C. Eswaran

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Retinal blood vessel detection and analysis play vital roles in early diagnosis and prevention of several diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes, arteriosclerosis, cardiovascular disease and stroke. This paper presents an automated algorithm for retinal blood vessel segmentation. The proposed algorithm takes advantage of powerful image processing techniques such as contrast enhancement, filtration and thresholding for more efficient segmentation. To evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm, experiments were conducted on 40 images collected from DRIVE database. The results show that the proposed algorithm yields an accuracy rate of 96.5%, which is higher than the results achieved by other known algorithms.

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  • Marwan Saleh & C. Eswaran, 2012. "An efficient algorithm for retinal blood vessel segmentation using h-maxima transform and multilevel thresholding," Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(5), pages 517-525.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:gcmbxx:v:15:y:2012:i:5:p:517-525
    DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2010.545949
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