TABLE I:
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Converting the grayscale image to the binary image (C-I) | |
Erosion following by dilation (C-II) | |
Removing small holes (C-III) | |
Finding the skeleton image (C-IV) | |
Removing isolated pixels | |
Removing spur pixels | |
Finding branch points | |
Dilating branch points | |
Removing branch points | |
Labeling connected components | |
Removing small objects | |
• Removing vessels with length less than a threshold | |
• Removing vessels with diameter less than a threshold | |
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