Segmentation Based Sparse Reconstruction of Optical Coherence Tomography Images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 407-421

  Fang, Leyuan ^a,b   Li, Shutao ^a   Cunefare, David ^b   Farsiu, Sina ^b  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Denoising; image reconstruction; interpolation; layer segmentation; ophthalmic imaging; optical coherence tomography; retina; sparse representation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE DENOISING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERPOLATION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

DE-NOISING; LAYER SEGMENTATION; OPHTHALMIC IMAGING; RETINA; SPARSE REPRESENTATION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINA; ALGORITHM; HUMAN;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; RETINA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 85012302375     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2016.2611503     Document Type: Article

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