Automated choroid segmentation based on gradual intensity distance in HD-OCT images

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 8974-8994

  Chen, Qiang ^a   Fan, Wen ^b   Niu, Sijie ^a   Shi, Jiajia ^a   Shen, Honglie ^a   Yuan, Songtao ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL TELEVISION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

BRUCH'S MEMBRANE; GRAPH SEARCH METHODS; REMOVAL ALGORITHMS; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYERS; SEGMENTATION ACCURACY; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SMOOTH CONSTRAINTS; STRUCTURE CHARACTERISTIC;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84928042446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.008974     Document Type: Article

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