A FEATURE-BASED DENSE LOCAL REGISTRATION OF PAIRS OF RETINAL IMAGES

M. Fernandes, Y. Gavet, J. C. Pinoli

2009

Abstract

A method for spatial registering pairs of digital images of the retina is presented, using intrinsic feature points (landmarks) and dense local transformation. First, landmarks, i.e. blood vessel bifurcations, are extracted from both retinal images using filtering followed by thinning and branch point analysis. Correspondances are found by topological and structural comparisons between both retinal networks. From this set of matching points, a displacement field is computed and, finally, one of the two images is transformed. Due to complex retinal registration problem, the presented transformation is dense, local and adaptive. Expermimental results established the effectiveness and the interest of the dense registration method.

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Fernandes M., Gavet Y. and Pinoli J. (2009). A FEATURE-BASED DENSE LOCAL REGISTRATION OF PAIRS OF RETINAL IMAGES . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2, pages 265-268. DOI: 10.5220/0001797102650268


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp09,
author={M. Fernandes and Y. Gavet and J. C. Pinoli},
title={A FEATURE-BASED DENSE LOCAL REGISTRATION OF PAIRS OF RETINAL IMAGES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={265-268},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001797102650268},
isbn={978-989-8111-69-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - A FEATURE-BASED DENSE LOCAL REGISTRATION OF PAIRS OF RETINAL IMAGES
SN - 978-989-8111-69-2
AU - Fernandes M.
AU - Gavet Y.
AU - Pinoli J.
PY - 2009
SP - 265
EP - 268
DO - 10.5220/0001797102650268