Evaluation of potential image acquisition pitfalls during optical coherence tomography and their influence on retinal image segmentation

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Somfai, Gábor Márk ^a   Salinas, Harry M ^b   Puliafito, Carmen A ^c   Fernández, Delia Cabrera ^c  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Artifacts; Image analysis; Optical coherence tomography (OCT); Segmentation

Indexed keywords

DEPOLARIZATION; FOCUSING; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

DECENTRATION; DEFOCUSING; RETINAL PATHOLOGY;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 35948948291     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2774827     Document Type: Article

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