README.txt

B-COSFIRE: trainable filters for detection of curvilinear and elongated patterns in images

Originally proposed for:
- Delineation of blood vessels in retinal images using trainable B-COSFIRE filters

CREATED BY: George Azzopardi (1, 3), Nicola Strisciuglio (1), Mario Vento (2) and Nicolai Petkov (1)
            1) University of Groningen, Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, Intelligent Systems
            2) University of Salerno, Dept. of Information Eng., Electrical Eng. and Applied Math., MIVIA Lab
            3) Intelligent Computer Systems, University of Malta, Msida, Malta

If you use this script please cite the following papers:
  [1] "George Azzopardi, Nicola Strisciuglio, Mario Vento, Nicolai Petkov, 
  Trainable COSFIRE filters for vessel delineation with application to retinal images, Medical Image Analysis, Volume 19 , Issue 1 , 46 - 57, ISSN 1361-8415, 
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2014.08.002"
  [2] N. Strisciuglio, G. Azzopardi, M. Vento, and N. Petkov,
    Supervised vessel delineation in retinal fundus images with the automatic selection of B-cosfire filters. 
    Machine Vision and Applications, doi:10.1007/s00138-016-0781-7

To run a demonstration:
1. Run the script BeforeUsing.m
2. Read the help contents of the script called BCOSFIRE.m
3. Use the example application in the file ExampleBloodVesselSegmentation.m

NOTE: The software requires a working MEX compiler.