Title :
Choroidal vessel characterization using en-face optical coherence tomography measurement
Author :
Balestrieri, E. ; Daponte, P. ; Rapuano, Sergio ; Cennamo, G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng., Univ. of Sannio, Benevento, Italy
Abstract :
The choroid plays an important role in the pathogenesis of many diseases of the back section of the eye. A comprehensive visualization and knowledge of the choroid is still lacking despite advances in imaging technologies. En-face Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) provides detailed images useful to understand choroidal vasculature. In the paper, in order to get essential information about circulation-related ocular diseases, an image processing and measurement procedure is presented, capable of providing an efficient choroidal vessel segmentation and caliber estimation starting from en-face OCT images.
Keywords :
biomedical optical imaging; blood vessels; diseases; image segmentation; medical image processing; optical tomography; OCT; caliber estimation; choroidal vasculature; choroidal vessel characterization; diseases; en-face optical coherence tomography measurement; image processing; pathogenesis; Databases; Diseases; Educational institutions; Estimation; Image segmentation; Level set; Retina; choroid; en-face OCT; vessel caliber; vessel density; vessel segmentation;
Conference_Titel :
Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA), 2014 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Lisboa
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2920-7
DOI :
10.1109/MeMeA.2014.6860045
