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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Access. 2020 Jan 21;8:18925–18937. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2968292

TABLE I:

Morphological Operations

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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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