Automated choroidal segmentation of 1060 nm OCT in healthy and pathologic eyes using a statistical model

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 86-103

  Kajić, Vedran ^a,b   Esmaeelpour, Marieh ^a,c   Považay, Boris ^a   Marshall, David ^b   Rosin, Paul L ^b   Drexler, Wolfgang ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATHOLOGY;

1060 NM; AVERAGE ERRORS; BRUCH'S MEMBRANE; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SPECKLE NOISE; STATISTICAL MODELS;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84856445072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.3.000086     Document Type: Article

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