Rapid image evaluation system for corneal in vivo confocal microscopy

Cornea

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 460-465

  Sindt, Christine W ^a   Lay, Bruno ^b   Bouchard, Helene ^b   Kern, Jami R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b ADCIS ^*  (France)

^c ALCON RESEARCH LTD   (United States)

Author keywords

cornea; dendritic immune cell; image analysis; image processing; in vivo confocal microscopy; nerve; wing cell

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BRIGHTNESS; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL ELONGATION; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DENDRITIC CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMMUNODETECTION; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE PLEXUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CORNEA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84875211230     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e31825ab9e2     Document Type: Article

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