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GIMP and Wavelets for Medical Image Processing: Enhancing Images of the Fundus of the Eye

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  • Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

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The visual analysis of retina and of its vascular characteristics is important in the diagnosis and monitoring of diseases of visual perception. In the related medical diagnoses, the digital processing of the fundus images is used to obtain the segmentation of retinal vessels. However, an image segmentation is often requiring methods based on peculiar or complex algorithms: in this paper we will show some alternative approaches obtained by applying freely available tools to enhance, without a specific segmentation, the images of the fundus of the eye. We will see in particular, that combining the use of GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, with the wavelet filter of Iris, a program well-known for processing astronomical images, the result is giving images which can be alternative of those obtained from segmentation.

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  • Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, 2014. "GIMP and Wavelets for Medical Image Processing: Enhancing Images of the Fundus of the Eye," International Journal of Sciences, Office ijSciences, vol. 3(08), pages 35-47, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:adm:journl:v:3:y:2014:i:8:p:35-47
    DOI: 10.18483/ijSci.556
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    1. Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, 2013. "The GNU Image Manipulation Program Applied to Study the Sand Dunes," International Journal of Sciences, Office ijSciences, vol. 2(09), pages 1-8, September.
    2. Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, 2013. "Edge-Detection Applied to Moving Sand Dunes on Mars," International Journal of Sciences, Office ijSciences, vol. 2(08), pages 102-104, August.
    3. Xiaoxia Yin & Brian W-H Ng & Jing He & Yanchun Zhang & Derek Abbott, 2014. "Accurate Image Analysis of the Retina Using Hessian Matrix and Binarisation of Thresholded Entropy with Application of Texture Mapping," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(4), pages 1-17, April.
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    1. Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, 2015. "An Image Processing Approach Based on Gnu Image Manipulation Program Gimp to the Panoramic Radiography," International Journal of Sciences, Office ijSciences, vol. 4(05), pages 57-67, May.

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