Fast retinal layer segmentation of spectral domain optical coherence tomography images

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Tianqiao ^a,b   Song, Zhangjun ^a   Wang, Xiaogang ^c   Zheng, Huimin ^a   Jia, Fucang ^a   Wu, Jianhuang ^a   Li, Guanglin ^a,d   Hu, Qingmao ^a,d  

^a SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SHANXI EYE HOSPITAL   (China)

^d Key Laboratory of Human Machine Intelligence Synergy Systems   (China)

Author keywords

active contour; curve smoothing; fast algorithm; Kalman filtering; macular layer boundary; segmentation; spectral domain optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KALMAN FILTERS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; TOMOGRAPHY;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; CURVE SMOOTHING; FAST ALGORITHMS; KALMAN-FILTERING; LAYER BOUNDARIES; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES;

COHERENT LIGHT;

AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MACULAR DEGENERATION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MACULA LUTEA; MACULAR DEGENERATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84942694159     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.20.9.096014     Document Type: Article

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