Detection of retinal nerve fiber layer defects on retinal fundus images for early diagnosis of glaucoma

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Muramatsu, Chisako ^a   Hayashi, Yoshinori ^b   Sawada, Akira ^a   Hatanaka, Yuji ^c   Hara, Takeshi ^a   Yamamoto, Tetsuya ^a   Fujita, Hiroshi ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TAK Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHIGA PREFECTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Glaucoma; Retinal fundus images; Retinal nerve fiber layer defects

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS; EARLY DETECTION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FALSE POSITIVE; FUNDUS IMAGE; GABOR FILTER; GLAUCOMA; IMAGE FEATURES; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYERS; RETINAL NERVES;

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DEFECTS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EYE FUNDUS; GLAUCOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETINA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FUNDUS OCULI; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); RETINA; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77953145086     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3322388     Document Type: Article

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