%0 Journal Article
%T Fully automatic algorithm for the analysis of vessels in the angiographic image of the eye fundus
%A Robert Koprowski
%A S£¿awomir Teper
%A Beata W£¿glarz
%A Edward Wyl£¿ga£¿a
%A Micha£¿ Krejca
%A Zygmunt Wr¨®bel
%J BioMedical Engineering OnLine
%D 2012
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/1475-925x-11-35
%X The paper presents an automated method for analysing vessels which are found in angiographic images of the eye using a Matlab implemented algorithm. It performs filtration and convolution operations with suggested masks. The result is an image containing information on the location of vessels and their inclination angle in relation to the center of the optic disc. This is a new approach to the analysis of vessels whose usefulness has been confirmed in the diagnosis of hypertension.The proposed algorithm analyzed and processed the images of the eye fundus using a classifier in the form of decision trees. It enabled the proper classification of healthy patients and those with hypertension. The result is a very good separation of healthy subjects from the hypertensive ones: sensitivity - 83%, specificity - 100%, accuracy - 96%. This confirms a practical usefulness of the proposed method.This paper presents an algorithm for the automatic analysis of morphological parameters of the fundus vessels. Such an analysis is performed during fluorescein angiography of the eye. The presented algorithm automatically calculates the global statistical features connected with both tortuosity of vessels and their total area or their number.
%K Image processing
%K Angiographic image
%K Fully automatic algorithm
%U http://www.biomedical-engineering-online.com/content/11/1/35/abstract