Joint retinal layer and fluid segmentation in OCT scans of eyes with severe macular edema using unsupervised representation and auto-context

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1874-1888

  Montuoro, Alessio ^a   Waldstein, Sebastian M ^a   Gerendas, Bianca S ^a   Schmidt Erfurth, Ursula ^a   Bogunović, Hrvoje ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Image processing; Ophthalmology; Optical coherence tomography; Three dimensional image processing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; GRAPH THEORY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; TOMOGRAPHY;

FEATURE REPRESENTATION; FLUID ACCUMULATION; LAYER SEGMENTATION; MANUAL ANNOTATION; MUTUAL INTERACTION; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SURFACE SEGMENTATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DIABETIC MACULAR EDEMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MACULAR EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINA; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA VEIN OCCLUSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

EID: 85016094959     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.8.001874     Document Type: Article

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