Estimating the keratoconus index from ultrasound images of the human cornea

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1268-1272

  Castiglione, Filippo ^a   Castiglione, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cornea; Image analysis; Keratoconus; Ultrasound biomicroscope

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

HUMAN CORNEAS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KERATOCONUS INDEX; ULTRASOUND BIOMICROSCOPES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CORNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS;

CORNEA; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS;

EID: 0034351107     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.897822     Document Type: Article

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