Automated segmentation of the macula by optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 15659-15669

  Fabritius, Tapio ^a   Makita, Shuichi ^b,c   Miura, Masahiro ^c,d   Myllylä, Risto ^a   Yasuno, Yoshiaki ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b Computational Optics Group ^*  (Japan)

^c Computational Optics and Ophthalmology Group ^*  (Japan)

^d TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; OPHTHALMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; IDENTIFICATION ALGORITHMS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SIGNAL INTENSITY VARIATIONS; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OCT; STRUCTURAL FEATURE;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACULA LUTEA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 69949102912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.015659     Document Type: Article

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