Nonlinear registration for scanned retinal images: Application to ocular polarimetry

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 29, 2008, Pages 5341-5347

  Nourrit, Vincent ^a   Bueno, Juan M ^b   Vohnsen, Brian ^b,c   Artal, Pablo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LABORATORIO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; POLARIZATION;

DEGREE OF POLARIZATION; IMPROVED CONTRASTS; NON-LINEAR METHODS; NONLINEAR REGISTRATION; POLARIZATION MEASUREMENTS; REGISTERED IMAGES; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; VISUAL FIELDS;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPHTHALMOSCOPE; RETINOSCOPY; STANDARD; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPHTHALMOSCOPES; RETINOSCOPY;

EID: 58149156167     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.005341     Document Type: Article

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