Automated retinal layers segmentation in SD-OCT images using dual-gradient and spatial correlation smoothness constraint

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue , 2014, Pages 116-128

  Niu, Sijie ^a   Chen, Qiang ^a   de Sisternes, Luis ^b   Rubin, Daniel L ^b   Zhang, Weiwei ^c   Liu, Qinghuai ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Automatic segmentation; Edge flow; Gradient compensation; Spatial correlation smoothness constraint; Spectral domain optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; EDGE DETECTION; GEOMETRY; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CONVOLUTION OPERATORS; EDGE FLOW; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; SMOOTHNESS CONSTRAINTS; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; ALGORITHM; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED RETINAL LAYER SEGMENTATION; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL GRADIENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; OPERATOR; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA IMAGE; RETINAL THICKNESS; SPATIAL CORRELATION SMOOTHNESS CONSTRAINT; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84908432729     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: 18790534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2014.08.028     Document Type: Article

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