Superpixel classification based optic disc and optic cup segmentation for glaucoma screening

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1019-1032

  Cheng, Jun ^a   Liu, Jiang ^a   Xu, Yanwu ^a   Yin, Fengshou ^a   Wong, Damon Wing Kee ^a   Tan, Ngan Meng ^a   Tao, Dacheng ^b   Cheng, Ching Yu ^c   Aung, Tin ^c   Wong, Tien Yin ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Glaucoma screening; optic cup segmentation; optic disc segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CUP TO DISC RATIOS; INTRA OCULAR PRESSURE; LOCATION INFORMATION; OPTIC CUPS; OPTIC DISC; RETINAL FUNDUS IMAGES; SEGMENTATION METHODS;

DIAGNOSIS; EYE PROTECTION; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; QUALITY CONTROL;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; GLAUCOMA; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC DISK CUP; RETINA IMAGE; SELF EVALUATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

AREA UNDER CURVE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OPTIC DISK; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84878557120     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2247770     Document Type: Article

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