Intra-retinal layer segmentation of 3D optical coherence tomography using coarse grained diffusion map

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 907-928

  Kafieh, Raheleh ^a   Rabbani, Hossein ^a,b   Abramoff, Michael D ^b   Sonka, Milan ^b  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion map; Optical coherence tomography (OCT); Segmentation; Spectral graph theory

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION MAPPINGS; DIFFUSION MAPS; GEOMETRIC DISTANCES; IMAGE INFORMATION; LAYER SEGMENTATION; NONINVASIVE METHODS; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SPECTRAL GRAPH THEORY;

DIFFUSION; EYE PROTECTION; GRAPH THEORY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; OPHTHALMOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION MAP; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

DIFFUSION MAP; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); SEGMENTATION; SPECTRAL GRAPH THEORY;

ALGORITHMS; DERMOSCOPY; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84880161116     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2013.05.006     Document Type: Article

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