Scale and Curvature Invariant Ridge Detector for Tortuous and Fragmented Structures
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Qualitative results Experiments Conclusion Problem: fragmentation, tortuosity and SNR are severe challenges for curvilinear structure detectors. Key contribution: new ridge detector, SCIRD: orientation, scale, contrast and curvature invariant. Results: SCIRD outperforms state-of-theart HCFs on corneal nerve fibres and neurites data sets. Future: to combine SCIRD with context filters (R. Annunziata et al., MICCAI2015)
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