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I am trying to figure out a way to find out the vein pattern in the hand.. Please could someone suggest ways to do the same.? I know first i would need to find the ROI in the image and perform further processing .. Can gabor filter be used as one of the steps ?

Thanks

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  • $\begingroup$ See related question on SO: stackoverflow.com/questions/8694534/iphone-camera-application $\endgroup$ – Paul R Jan 19 '12 at 15:35
  • $\begingroup$ my question is what is the programming languge for those code becuse i try to apply that on MATLAB but it dos'nt work and if there any equivelant code in MATLAB. thanks zainab $\endgroup$ – user4798 Jun 12 '13 at 9:59
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Ridge filtering seems like a possible processing. I have not tried to clean up the non-veins ridges; perhaps there would not be need for that step in more constrained acquisition conditions.

In Mathematica:

img = ColorConvert[Import["http://i.stack.imgur.com/5og5Z.jpg"], "Grayscale"];
r = RidgeFilter[ColorNegate@img, 3];
Binarize[ImageAdjust@r, .03] // Thinning

enter image description here

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  • $\begingroup$ is there an implementation of ridge filtering in MATLAB? $\endgroup$ – vini Jan 18 '12 at 16:24
  • $\begingroup$ There does not seem to be any implementation shipping with matlab. However, Google reveals user contributions to the matlab central exchange. According to the Mathematica documentation (reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/RidgeFilter.html), ones needs to compute "the main principal curvature orthogonal to a ridge as given by the main negative eigenvalue of the Hessian matrix." $\endgroup$ – Matthias Odisio Jan 18 '12 at 16:54
  • $\begingroup$ I find this concept a little hard to grasp ! $\endgroup$ – vini Jan 18 '12 at 17:30
  • $\begingroup$ One reference would be "Front-End Vision and Multi-Scale Image Analysis", by Bart M. Haar Romeny $\endgroup$ – Matthias Odisio Jan 18 '12 at 17:47
  • $\begingroup$ will search and let u knw :) $\endgroup$ – vini Jan 18 '12 at 18:08

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