Automated layer segmentation of optical coherence tomography images

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 10 PART 2, 2010, Pages 2605-2608

  Lu, Shijian ^a   Cheung, Carol Yim Lui ^b   Liu, Jiang ^a   Lim, Joo Hwee ^a   Leung, Christopher Kai Shun ^c   Wong, Tien Yin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Glaucoma; OCT layer segmentation; Optical coherence tomography (OCT)

Indexed keywords

BILATERAL FILTERS; GLAUCOMA; IMAGE NOISE; IMAGE VARIATIONS; LAYER BOUNDARIES; LAYER SEGMENTATION; MEDIAN FILTER; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINAL BLOOD VESSELS; RETINAL LAYERS; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYERS;

BLOOD VESSELS; COHERENT LIGHT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE FIBER; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINA NERVE CELL;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OPTIC DISK; RETINA; RETINAL VESSELS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 77956907852     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2055057     Document Type: Article

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