After highlighting vessel like structure by an appropriate filter in Matched Filter (MF) technique, thresholding strategy is needed for the automated detection of blood vessels in retinal images. For the purpose, we propose to use a new technique of entropic thresholding based on Gray Level Spatial Correlation (GLSC) histogram which takes into account the image local property. Results obtained ...

A new method for the detection of blood vessels that improves the detection of exudates in fundus photographs. The method starts with pre-processing to enhance the input image. The initial estimation of exudates is obtained by segmenting the optic disc and blood vessels from the fundus image. In order to segment the optic disc and blood vessel separate algorithm were used. First, optic disc is ...

      Dust storms are increasingly threatening the forest ecosystem in Western Iran. Due to its coverage of vast area of Zagros forest, the Quercus brantii is at the front line of the attack. Most tree deaths in this forest are from this species. This study aims to investigate the effect of simulated dust on wood development and leaf stomata from seedlings of Persian oak. The oak seedlings were...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether bright vessel appearance on arterial spin labeling (ASL) MRI can help localize arterial occlusion sites in patients with acute ischemic stroke. METHODS Patients who underwent MRI for suspected acute ischemic stroke, as identified by an area of restricted diffusion, were included. All images were visually analyzed for the...

The paper addresses the fine retinal-vessel's detection issue that is faced in diagnostic applications and aims at assisting in better recognizing fine vessel anomalies in 2D. Our innovation relies in separating key visual features vessels exhibit in order to make the diagnosis of eventual retinopathologies easier to detect. This allows focusing on vessel segments which present fine changes det...

In this paper, detection of edges in oriented fields is addressed. Haralick edge detection is an accurate scheme for estimation of the edge in a Euclidean space. However, in some applications such as edge detection for vessel segmentation because of the intrinsic orientation of structures, accuracy is only demanded in a particular subspace. This is specially usefull when a curve evolution is ch...