Automated layer segmentation of macular OCT images using dual-scale gradient information

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 21293-21307

  Yang, Qi ^a   Reisman, Charles A ^a   Wang, Zhenguo ^a   Fukuma, Yasufumi ^a   Hangai, Masanori ^b   Yoshimura, Nagahisa ^b   Tomidokoro, Atsuo ^c   Araie, Makoto ^c   Raza, Ali S ^d   Hood, Donald C ^d   Chan, Kinpui ^a  

^a TOPCON Advanced Biomedical Imaging Laboratory   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; TOMOGRAPHY;

BOUNDARY SEGMENTATION; DUAL SCALE; EDGE SELECTION; EXECUTION TIME; GRADIENT INFORMATIONS; LAYER SEGMENTATION; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SHORTEST PATH;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; AUTOMATION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACULA LUTEA; MACULAR DEGENERATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 77957986703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.021293     Document Type: Article

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