Segmentation of Doppler optical coherence tomography signatures using a support-vector machine

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1328-1339

  Singh, Amardeep S G ^a   Schmoll, Tilman ^a   Leitgeb, Rainer A ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

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EID: 85010172613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.2.001328     Document Type: Article

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