High-accuracy retinal layer segmentation for optical coherence tomography using tracking kernels based on gaussian mixture model

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Cha, Yeong Mun ^a   Han, Jae Ho ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Anatomy; biomedical image processing; biomedical optical imaging; biophotonics; image segmentation

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; BIO PHOTONICS; BIO-MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; BIOMEDICAL OPTICAL IMAGING; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; MORPHOLOGICAL SEGMENTATION; PIXEL CLASSIFICATION;

IMAGE MATCHING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTONICS; PIXELS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84887415523     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2013.2281028     Document Type: Article

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