Automatic segmentation of choroidal thickness in optical coherence tomography

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2795-2812

  Alonso Caneiro, David ^a   Read, Scott A ^a   Collins, Michael J ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED METHODS; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; REFRACTIVE ERROR; ROBUST DETECTION; SURROUNDING FEATURE; THICKNESS PROFILES;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CHILD; CHOROIDAL THICKNESS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INNER CHOROID BOUNDARY; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OUTER CHOROID BOUNDARY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA NERVE FIBRE LAYER; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SCHOOL CHILD; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

EID: 84888816372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.4.002795     Document Type: Article

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