Automated segmentation of retinal blood vessels in spectral domain optical coherence tomography scans

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1478-1491

  Pilch, Matthäus ^a,b   Wenner, Yaroslava ^a   Strohmayr, Elisabeth ^a   Preising, Markus ^a   Friedburg, Christoph ^a   zu Bexten, Erdmuthe Meyer ^b   Lorenz, Birgit ^a   Stieger, Knut ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE MITTELHESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PIXELS;

ACTIVE SHAPE MODELS; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; AXIAL DIRECTION; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; LAYER THICKNESS; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; READER VARIABILITY; RETINAL BLOOD VESSELS; RETINAL DISEASE; SEGMENTATION PROCEDURE; SHAPE MODEL; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES; SPECTRAL DOMAINS; STATISTICAL SHAPE MODEL; SURFACE AREA; TRAINING PHASE;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 84863893200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.3.001478     Document Type: Article

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