Photoreceptor counting and montaging of en-face retinal images from an adaptive optics fundus camera

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1364-1372

  Xue, Bai ^a   Choi, Stacey C ^a   Doble, Nathan ^b   Werner, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Iris AO Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DENSITY MEASUREMENT (OPTICAL); IMAGING SYSTEMS; VISION;

CONE DENSITY MEASUREMENT ALGORITHM; MONTAGING ALGORITHM; PHOTORECEPTOR; RETINAL IMAGES;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CELL COUNT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTORECEPTOR; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINOSCOPE; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CELL COUNT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LENSES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHOTORECEPTORS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINOSCOPES; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34249658501     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.24.001364     Document Type: Article

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