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

fYear

2011

fDate

Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 3 2011

Firstpage

3391

Lastpage

3394

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4121-1

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090918

Filename

6090918