Image quality improvement in adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy assisted capillary visualization using B-spline-based elastic image registration

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Uji, Akihito ^a   Ooto, Sotaro ^a   Hangai, Masanori ^a   Arichika, Shigeta ^a   Yoshimura, Nagahisa ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTIC SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; B SPLINE; CAPILLARY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY;

EID: 84893071360     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080106     Document Type: Article

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