Detecting glaucomatous wedge shaped defects in polarimetric images

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 503-511

  Vermeer, Koen A ^a,b   Vos, Frans M ^a,c   Lemij, H G ^b   Vossepoel, Albert M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ROTTERDAM EYE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computer aided glaucoma diagnosis; Dynamic programming; Retinal nerve fiber layer; Scanning laser polarimetry; Wedge shaped defects

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LASER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE FIBER; OPTIC DISK; PATHOLOGY; POLARIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

EID: 0142210306     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-8415(03)00041-0     Document Type: Article

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