Optimized retinal nerve fiber layer segmentation based on optical reflectivity and birefringence for polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8185, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wang, Bingqing ^a   Paranjape, Amit S ^a   Yin, Biwei ^a   Liu, Shuang ^a   Markey, Mia K ^a   Milner, Thomas E ^a   Rylander III, H Grady ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

optical coherence tomography; retinal imaging; retinal nerve fiber layer segmentation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY DETECTION ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY DETECTION METHOD; CHANGE IN BIREFRINGENCE; INNER LIMITING MEMBRANES; INTENSITY-BASED; LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT; NONLINEAR FITTING ALGORITHMS; OPTICAL REFLECTIVITY; PHASE RETARDATION; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL IMAGING; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYERS; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SPECKLE NOISE; SWEPT SOURCE; TRANSITION ZONES;

ALGORITHMS; BIREFRINGENCE; CAPILLARY FLOW; FIBERS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; POLARIZATION; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 80054903994     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.892826     Document Type: Conference Paper

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