Choroidal vasculature characteristics based choroid segmentation for enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography images

Medical Physics

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1649-1661

  Chen, Qiang ^a   Niu, Sijie ^a   Yuan, Songtao ^b   Fan, Wen ^b   Liu, Qinghuai ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

choroid segmentation; choroidal vasculature characteristics; EDI OCT image; maximum intensity image

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; EYE PROTECTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

B-SCANS; CHOROID SEGMENTATION; CHOROIDAL VASCULATURE CHARACTERISTIC; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DEPTH IMAGING; ENHANCED DEPTH IMAGING OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY IMAGE; INTENSITY IMAGES; MAXIMUM INTENSITIES; MAXIMUM INTENSITY IMAGE; VASCULATURE;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

A SCAN; AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CHOROID; CHOROID SCLERA JUNCTION; CHOROID VASCULARIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; ENHANCED DEPTH IMAGING OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; ALGORITHM; ANGIOGENESIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; VASCULARIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; CHOROID; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84961574714     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: 24734209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4943382     Document Type: Article

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