Segmentation processes and pattern recognition in retina and brain imaging

Prior studies have suggested a connection between the deprivation of visual stimuli and the degeneration of cortical visual areas. Retinal and cortical thickness allows inferring on the integrity of the retina and the cortex, respectively. We intend to develop a novel methodology to allow establishing the correlation between retinal and cortical thickness, automatically and in vivo. Cortical thickness requires proper visual stimuli to establish to which location within the ocular fundus a given visual cortex location refers to. Through retinotopic mapping the link between the visual space and the visual cortex can be established, although with low resolution. Automated software that maps the visual area and interpolates retinotopic data was developed.