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Original Article

Retinal Vascular Fractal Dimension Measurement and Its Influence from Imaging Variation: Results of Two Segmentation Methods

Victoria Fay CosattoCentre for Eye Research Australia, Department of Ophthalmology and Westmead Millennium Institute, Centre for Vision Research, University of Sydney, Australia
,
Gerald LiewCentre for Eye Research Australia, Department of Ophthalmology and Westmead Millennium Institute, Centre for Vision Research, University of Sydney, Australia
,
Elena RochtchinaCentre for Eye Research Australia, Department of Ophthalmology and Westmead Millennium Institute, Centre for Vision Research, University of Sydney, Australia
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Alan WainwrightCentre for Eye Research Australia, Department of Ophthalmology and Westmead Millennium Institute, Centre for Vision Research, University of Sydney, Australia
,
YongPing ZhangSchool of Electronic and Information Engineering, Ningbo University of Technology, China
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Wynne HsuSchool of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore
,
Mong Li LeeSchool of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore
,
Qiangfeng Peter LauSchool of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore
,
Haslina H HamzahSingapore Eye Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore
,
Paul MitchellCentre for Eye Research Australia, Department of Ophthalmology and Westmead Millennium Institute, Centre for Vision Research, University of Sydney, Australia
,
Tien Yin Wong
&
Jie Jin WangCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 850-856 | Received 09 Sep 2008, Accepted 25 Apr 2010, Published online: 26 Aug 2010

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