Griffith Research
My research in the Image Processing Lab at Griffith University is going very well. I just recently completed a program that identifies blood vessels in retina scans. Over the next few weeks I will be testing the program in hopes to attain a high level of accuracy for vessel detection. I used the Python Image Library (http://bit.ly/1ikFGj) and NumPy (http://bit.ly/2P9kn). Using the Python programming language for biomedical research was something new for me because I before I had only used Python for game development.
Using the ideas of Elisa Ricci and Renzo Perfetti described in “Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation Using Line Operators and Support Vector Classification” published in October, 2007 by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, I believe my results are very close to the results they achieved.