Automated 3-D Intraretinal Layer Segmentation of Macular Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1436-1447

  Garvin, Mona Kathryn ^a   Abràmoff, Michael David ^b,c   Wu, Xiaodong ^b   Russell, Stephen R ^b   Burns, Trudy L ^a   Sonka, Milan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ophthalmology; optical coherence tomography; retina; segmentation; spectral domain; three dimensional (3 D) graph search

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA; RETINA MACULA LUTEA;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MACULA LUTEA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 73849122331     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2016958     Document Type: Article

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