Automated 3-D retinal layer segmentation of macular optical coherence tomography images with serous pigment epithelial detachments

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 441-452

  Shi, Fei ^a   Chen, Xinjian ^a   Zhao, Heming ^a   Zhu, Weifang ^a   Xiang, Dehui ^a   Gao, Enting ^a   Sonka, Milan ^b   Chen, Haoyu ^c  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

^c SHANTOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Optical coherence tomography (OCT); pigment epithelium detachment (PED); retinal layer segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; VOLUME FRACTION;

AVERAGE RUNNING TIME; INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITY; LAYER SEGMENTATION; PROMINENT FEATURES; RETINAL LAYERS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIAL; SURFACE CORRECTIONS; VOLUME SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; B SCAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FILTRATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINA DETACHMENT; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETINA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RETINA; RETINAL DETACHMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84922374485     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2014.2359980     Document Type: Article

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