Automated measurement of retinal vascular tortuosity

Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp. 1997:459-63.

Abstract

Automatic measurement of blood vessel tortuosity is a useful capability for automatic ophthalmological diagnostic tools. We describe a suite of automated tortuosity measures for blood vessel segments extracted from RGB retinal images. The tortuosity measures were evaluated in two classification tasks: (1) classifying the tortuosity of blood vessel segments and (2) classifying the tortuosity of blood vessel networks. These tortuosity measures were able to achieve a classification rate of 91% for the first problem and 95% on the second problem, which confirms that they capture much of the ophthalmologists' notion of tortuosity.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Fundus Oculi
  • Humans
  • Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted*
  • Logistic Models
  • Retinal Diseases / classification*
  • Retinal Vessels / pathology*