Automatic segmentation of closed-contour features in ophthalmic images using graph theory and dynamic programming

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1127-1140

  Chiu, Stephanie J ^a   Toth, Cynthia A ^a,b   Rickman, Catherine Bowes ^b   Izatt, Joseph A ^a,b   Farsiu, Sina ^a,b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GRAPH THEORY; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

A-TRANSFORM; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CARTESIANS; CONFOCAL FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EPITHELIUM CELLS; QUANTITATIVE VALIDATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84863916285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.3.001127     Document Type: Article

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