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Title: Detection of Glaucoma Using Cup to Disc Ratio From Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Images
Authors: Khalil, Tehmina
Akram, M. Usman
Raja, Hina
Jameel, Amina
Basit, Imran
Keywords: Medical and Health Sciences
Optical Imaging
Biomedical optical imaging
Retina
Image segmentation
Spectral analysis
Optical coherence tomography
Asymptomatic neurological disease
Disc-diameter-calculation process
Cup edges determination
Optical coherence tomography
Biomedical informatics
Issue Date: 9-Jan-2018
Publisher: IEEE Access
Abstract: Glaucoma is an asymptomatic neurological disease. It causes damage to optic nerve due to increased fluid pressure within eyes. In the proposed system, cup-to-disc-ratio has been computed considering internal layers of the retina using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography images. In the cupdiameter-calculation process, cup contour has been extracted from inner-limiting-membrane (ILM) layer. The paper introduces a new method to improve the precision of the ILM-layer extraction. It also employs a novel technique to refine contour of an ILM layer. The novel method has outperformed interpolation and Bezier curve fitting in term of outliers' removal and surface refinement. In the disc-diameter-calculation process, the retinal-pigment-epithelium (RPE) layer end points have been used to define disc margin. Prior to RPE-layer extraction, ILM-Layer removal has been done by an innovative strategy to locate and remove ILM-layer. Finally, precise RPE-layer extraction has been done based on the novel thickness-value (TV) estimation method. Furthermore, a new criterion for cup edges determination, based on the mean value of RPE-layer end points, is proposed. The proposed system has shown a clear precedence over its contemporary systems in terms of accuracy and handling of acute cases. Satisfactory results have been obtained when compared with the clinical results.
URI: http://142.54.178.187:9060/xmlui/handle/123456789/989
ISSN: 2169-3536
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