Semi-automated identification of cones in the human retina using circle Hough transform

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4676-4693

  Bukowska, Danuta M ^a,b   Chew, Avenell L ^a,b   Huynh, Emily ^b   Kashani, Irwin ^a   Wan, Sue Ling ^a,b   Wan, Pak Ming ^d   Chen, Fred K ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b LIONS EYE INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Active or adaptive optics; Image processing; Medical and biological imaging; Ophthalmology

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; AUTOMATION; COLOR VISION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; VISION;

AUTOMATED COUNTING; AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION; CIRCLE DETECTION; CIRCLE HOUGH TRANSFORMS; COLOR PERCEPTION; MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL IMAGING; POTENTIAL METHODS; QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS INSTRUMENTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CELL COUNTING; CIRCLE HOUGH TRANSFORM; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RETINA CONE; RETINA FOVEA; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84961820286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.6.004676     Document Type: Article

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