Automated analysis of differential interference contrast microscopy images of the foveal cone mosaic

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

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1181-1189

  Wojtas, David H ^a   Wu, Bing ^a   Ahnelt, Peter K ^b   Bones, Philip J ^a   Millane, R P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL INTERFERENCE CONTRAST MICROSCOPIES; DOMAIN STRUCTURES; MANUAL ANALYSIS; SHORT-RANGE ORDERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA CONE; RETINA FOVEA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONES (RETINA); FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 47549086903     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.25.001181     Document Type: Article

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