Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 43, Issue 3 , Pages 243-259 , July 2008

Identification of the optic nerve head with genetic algorithms

  • Enrique J. Carmona

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, C/Juan del Rosal 16, 28040 Madrid, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +34 91 398 73 01; fax: +34 91 398 88 95.
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  • Mariano Rincón

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, C/Juan del Rosal 16, 28040 Madrid, Spain
  • ,
  • Julián García-Feijoó

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Glaucoma, Servicio de Oftalmología, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigaciones Ramón Castroviejo, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
  • ,
  • José M. Martínez-de-la-Casa

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Glaucoma, Servicio de Oftalmología, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigaciones Ramón Castroviejo, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain

Received 23 October 2007 ,Revised 22 April 2008 ,Accepted 23 April 2008.

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PII: S0933-3657(08)00054-7

doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2008.04.005

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 43, Issue 3 , Pages 243-259 , July 2008