Title :
VAMPIRE: Vessel assessment and measurement platform for images of the REtina
Author :
Perez-Rovira, A. ; MacGillivray, T. ; Trucco, E. ; Chin, K.S. ; Zutis, K. ; Lupascu, C. ; Tegolo, D. ; Giachetti, A. ; Wilson, PJ ; Doney, A. ; Dhillon, B.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput., Univ. of Dundee, Dundee, UK
fDate :
Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 3 2011
Abstract :
We present VAMPIRE, a software application for efficient, semi-automatic quantification of retinal vessel properties with large collections of fundus camera images. VAMPIRE is also an international collaborative project of four image processing groups and five clinical centres. The system provides automatic detection of retinal landmarks (optic disc, vasculature), and quantifies key parameters used frequently in investigative studies: vessel width, vessel branching coefficients, and tortuosity. The ultimate vision is to make VAMPIRE available as a public tool, to support quantification and analysis of large collections of fundus camera images.
Keywords :
biomedical optical imaging; blood vessels; eye; medical image processing; spatial variables measurement; VAMPIRE; Vessel Assessment and Measurement Platform for Images of the Retina; automatic retinal landmark detection; fundus camera images; optic disc; retinal vessel property semiautomatic quantification; vasculature; vessel branching coefficients; vessel tortuosity; vessel width; Biomedical imaging; Diabetes; Fractals; Image segmentation; Observers; Retinal vessels; Fractals; Humans; Retinal Vessels;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4121-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090918
