Loosely coupled level sets for simultaneous 3D retinal layer segmentation in optical coherence tomography

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 146-158

  Novosel, Jelena ^a,b   Thepass, Gijs ^a   Lemij, Hans G ^a   de Boer, Johannes F ^c   Vermeer, Koenraad A ^a   van Vliet, Lucas J ^b  

^a ROTTERDAM EYE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attenuation coefficients; Bayes; Glaucoma; Macula; Retinal nerve fibre layer

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE COUPLINGS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TOMOGRAPHY;

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; BAYES; GLAUCOMA; MACULA; RETINAL NERVES;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; EYE TRACKING; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; NOISE REDUCTION; OPTIC NERVE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY DEVICE; OPTICS; PERIMETRY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA INNER NUCLEAR LAYER; RETINA INNER PLEXIFORM LAYER; RETINA OUTER NUCLEAR LAYER; RETINA OUTER PLEXIFORM LAYER; RETINAL NERVE FIBRE LAYER; RETINAL THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VITREOUS BODY; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84942254698     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2015.08.008     Document Type: Article

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