Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation Using Ensemble of Single Oriented Mask Filters
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1 Faculty of Information and Communications Technology, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, 76100, Durian Tunggal, Melaka, Malaysia 2 Center for Artificial Intelligence Technology, Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 43600 Bangi, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia 3 Faculty of Computing and Information Technology Rabigh, King Abdul Aziz University, Saudi Arabia
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