Analogizing the Thinning Algorithm and Elicitation of Vascular Landmark in Retinal Images

Autor: J. Shiny Priyadarshini, D. Gladis
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence. 10:29-37
ISSN: 1557-3966
1557-3958
DOI: 10.4018/ijcini.2016070103
Popis: The retinal tissue is composed of network of blood vessels forming a unique biometric pattern. Feature extraction in retinal blood vessel is becoming an emerging trend in the field of personal identification. Because of its unique identity and less vulnerability to noise and distortion it has become one of the most secured biometric identities. The paper highlights the segmentation of blood vessel and the extraction of feature points such as termination and bifurcation points using Zhang Suen's thinning algorithm in retinal images. A comparison has been made and results are analyzed and tabulated between Zhang Suen and Morphological thinning. The count has been taken for both termination and bifurcation markings as spurious and non- spurious minutiae. The spurious minutiae are removed by using the crossing number method. The results clearly depict that the Zhang Suen's thinning algorithm gives better result when compared to morphological thinning.
Databáze: OpenAIRE