Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 34, Issue 3 , Pages 228-235 , April 2010

A coarse-to-fine strategy for automatically detecting exudates in color eye fundus images

  • Daniel Welfer

      Affiliations

    • Instituto de Informática, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonalves 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, CEP 91509-900, Brazil
    • ,
  • Jacob Scharcanski

      Affiliations

    • Instituto de Informática, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonalves 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, CEP 91509-900, Brazil
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +55 51 3308 7128; fax: +55 51 3308 7308.
    • ,
  • Diane Ruschel Marinho

      Affiliations

    • Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rua Ramiro Barcelos, 2400, Porto Alegre, RS, CEP 90035-003, Brazil

Received 29 May 2009 ,Revised 9 October 2009 ,Accepted 12 October 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2009.10.001

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 34, Issue 3 , Pages 228-235 , April 2010

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