Automated detection of retinal layer structures on optical coherence tomography images

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 10200-10216

  Cabrera Fernández, Delia ^a   Salinas, Harry M ^a   Puliafito, Carmen A ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; LASERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TENSORS;

COHERENCE INFORMATION; DIFFUSION FILTERING; SPECKLE NOISE REMOVAL;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 28944453878     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.010200     Document Type: Article

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