Eye feature extraction for fetal alcohol syndrome screening

Author

Douglas, T.S. ; Martinez, F. ; Meintjes, E.M. ; Vaughan, C.L. ; Viljoen, D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Human Biol., Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

2541

Abstract

Conventional screening for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in children involves time-consuming and intrusive facial measurements. We are developing an alternative method that will allow automatic measurement of the relevant points from a pair of stereo photographs. This paper describes a method for automatic eye extraction from such photographs, using genetic algorithms to match eye templates to face images.

Keywords

biomedical optical imaging; eye; feature extraction; genetic algorithms; image matching; medical image processing; obstetrics; organic compounds; paediatrics; photographic applications; central nervous system abnormalities; excessive maternal alcohol ingestion; eye feature extraction; eye templates matching; face images; facial dysmorphology; fetal alcohol syndrome screening; growth retardation; malformations; medical diagnostic imaging; mental retardation; stereo photographs pair; teratogenic effects; time-consuming intrusive facial measurements; Africa; Biological cells; Biomedical imaging; Birth disorders; Distance measurement; Eyes; Feature extraction; Genetic algorithms; Humans; Iris;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2001. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7211-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1017297

Filename

1017297