A graphical user interface for measurement of temporal arcade angles in fundus images of the retina

Author

Oloumi, Faraz ; Rangayyan, Rangaraj M. ; Ells, Anna L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

fYear

2012

fDate

April 29 2012-May 2 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Monitoring the angle of insertion of the major temporal arcade (MTA) and how it changes over time could facilitate improved diagnosis and optimized treatment of retinopathy. We present a graphical user interface (GUI) for the measurement of the MTA and other types of arcade angles using two methods. The GUI is being designed in consultation with an expert ophthalmologist and adheres to the main principles of GUI design. The difference between the MTA angles obtained with 10 normal images and 15 images of proliferative diabetic retinopathy from the STARE database was found to be statistically highly significant (p<;0.01).

Keywords

angular measurement; biomedical measurement; biomedical optical imaging; blood vessels; diseases; eye; graphical user interfaces; medical image processing; patient monitoring; GUI; STARE database; angle-of-insertion monitoring; blood vessels; diagnosis; fundus images; graphical user interface; medical image processing; ophthalmologist; optical imaging; optimized treatment; proliferative diabetic retinopathy; retina; temporal arcade; temporal arcade angle measurement; Computers; Databases; Diabetes; Graphical user interfaces; Image analysis; Retina; Retinopathy; Arcade Angles; Blood Vessels; Fundus Images; Graphical User Interface; Medical Image Processing; Retina; Retinopathy; Temporal Arcade;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical & Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2012 25th IEEE Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, QC

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1431-2

Electronic_ISBN

0840-7789

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2012.6334929

Filename

6334929