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spellingShingle Khawaja, Ahsan, Khan, Tariq M., Khan, Mohammad A. U., Nawaz, Syed Junaid, Sensors, A Multi-Scale Directional Line Detector for Retinal Vessel Segmentation, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biochemistry, Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Analytical Chemistry
title A Multi-Scale Directional Line Detector for Retinal Vessel Segmentation
title_full A Multi-Scale Directional Line Detector for Retinal Vessel Segmentation
title_fullStr A Multi-Scale Directional Line Detector for Retinal Vessel Segmentation
title_full_unstemmed A Multi-Scale Directional Line Detector for Retinal Vessel Segmentation
title_short A Multi-Scale Directional Line Detector for Retinal Vessel Segmentation
title_sort a multi-scale directional line detector for retinal vessel segmentation
title_unstemmed A Multi-Scale Directional Line Detector for Retinal Vessel Segmentation
topic Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biochemistry, Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Analytical Chemistry
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