Retinal layer segmentation of macular OCT images using boundary classification

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1133-1152

  Lang, Andrew ^a   Carass, Aaron ^a   Hauser, Matthew ^a   Sotirchos, Elias S ^b   Calabresi, Peter A ^b   Ying, Howard S ^c   Prince, Jerry L ^a  

^a Whiting School of Engineering   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECISION TREES; DIAGNOSIS; EYE PROTECTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; BOUNDARY CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; IMAGING MODALITY; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFIER;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEAL HYSTERESIS; COST; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; RETINA MACULA LUTEA;

EID: 84879267573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.4.001133     Document Type: Article

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