A hybrid segmentation approach for geographic atrophy in fundus auto-fluorescence images for diagnosis of age-related macular degeneration

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4965-4968

  Lee, Noah ^a   Laine, Andrew F ^a   Smith, R Theodore ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DISEASES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

AUTO-FLUORESCENCE IMAGES; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY (GA); RETINAL VESSELS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

LIPOFUSCIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; DISEASE COURSE; EYE FUNDUS; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATROPHY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; LIPOFUSCIN; MACULAR DEGENERATION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 57649188684     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353455     Document Type: Conference Paper

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