Enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio in ophthalmic optical coherence tomography by image registration-method and clinical examples

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Jørgensen, Thomas Martini ^a   Thomadsen, Jakob ^a   Christensen, Ulrik ^b   Soliman, Wael ^b   Sander, Birgit ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Image registration; Macular hole; Optical coherence tomography (OCT); Regularized dynamic programming; Speckle reduction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA; RETINA DISEASE; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EYE MOVEMENTS; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL CORRELATION; SCANNING; SPECKLE;

MACULAR HOLE; REGULARIZED DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; SPECKLE REDUCTION;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 35948991132     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2772879     Document Type: Article

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