Journal on Communications ›› 2017, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (4): 158-165.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2017087

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Optimum hierarchical segmentation of OCT images in retina based on macular distance

Jian-feng LI1,Yi-zhou LU2   

  1. 1 College of Information Science and Engineering,Jishou University,Jishou 416000,China
    2 School of Information Science and Engineering,Central South University,Changsha 410083,China
  • Revised:2017-03-10 Online:2017-04-01 Published:2017-07-20
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61562029);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61262032);The Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(2015JJ3100)

Abstract:

Retina layering was the basis of optic disc structure analysis and 3D feature extraction of glaucoma.In order to improve the layering effect of retinal OCT images,an intensity based multilayer segmentation algorithm for two-dimensional retinal OCT images was proposed.Through preprocessing and filtering operation,the segmentation algorithm calculated the intensity and intensity gradient of each A-scan in the retinal OCT image to obtain the upper bound RNFL,the dividing line IS and OS,and the lower bound RPE.Then macular distance strategy,calculated by the shortest distance,was used to further optimize the layering result of macular area,so as to achieve layering segmentation of the retinal OCT images.The experimental results show the algorithm has good optimization effect,low time complexity and fast running speed.

Key words: retina, macular, optical coherence tomography, image segmentation

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