Development of a simple diagnostic method for the glaucoma using ocular Fundus pictures.

Author

Inoue, Naoto ; Yanashima, Kenji ; Magatani, Kazushige ; Kurihara, Takuro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tokai Univ., Kanagawa

fYear

2006

Firstpage

3355

Lastpage

3358

Abstract

There are approximately 2 million people who have glaucoma. And about 90% of glaucoma patients have chronic type disease, and most of them do not notice of their disease. Finally they will lost their eyesight by this disease. Therefore, it is necessary to develop the auto diagnostic method for glaucoma. Our objective of this study is the development of the auto diagnostic system for the glaucoma by using fundus photograph. In our system, digitized fundus photograph is tested in personal computer, and the ratio of the area of optic disk and the area of optic disk cup (named C/D ratio) is calculated and evaluated automatically. And then this system can checkup subject condition for glaucoma. In this paper, we will discuss our auto diagnostic system for the glaucoma

Keywords

biomedical optical imaging; diseases; eye; medical image processing; vision defects; autodiagnostic system; digitized fundus photograph; disease; glaucoma; ocular fundus pictures; optic disk area; optic disk cup area; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical optical imaging; Histograms; Image analysis; Pixel; fundus picture; glaucoma; optic disk; optic disk cup;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8741-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1617196

Filename

1617196