Evaluation of a nonlinear diffusion process for segmentation and quantification of lesions in Optical Coherence Tomography images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5747, Issue III, 2005, Pages 1834-1843

  Fernández, Delia Cabrera ^a   Salinas, Harry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contour models; Age related macular degeneration; Edge detection; Nonlinear anisotropic diffusion; Ophthalmology; Optical coherence tomography; Retina; Snakes

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODELS; AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; NONLINEAR ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINA; SNAKES;

DIFFUSION; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 23844453453     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.596024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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