Statistics of optical coherence tomography data from human retina

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1224-1237

  Grzywacz, Norberto Mauricio ^a   De Juan, Joaquín ^b   Ferrone, Claudia ^c   Giannini, Daniela ^c   Huang, David ^d   Koch, Giorgio ^c   Russo, Vincenzo ^c   Tan, Ou ^d   Bruni, Carlo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetic retinopathy; Maximum likelihood detection; Optical coherence tomography; Stretched exponential distribution; Visual system

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; EYE PROTECTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PIXELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

AUTOMATIC PROCEDURES; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD DETECTION; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; PARAMETER MODULATION; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; VISUAL SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 77953161804     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2038375     Document Type: Article

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