Spectral imaging of the human ocular fundus

Author

Truitt, P.W. ; Magotra, N. ; Soliz, P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque, NM, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

36434

Abstract

Visual and photographic examination of the back of the eye, or fundus, is a critical tool in diagnosing and monitoring both ocular and systemic diseases. Current techniques are not optimized for visualization of fundus tissue classes. High-resolution spectral imaging, which measures the spectral properties at spatially resolved points across the scene, has been applied to the examination of the ocular fundus. Spectral features resulting from this data provide good and consistent separation of the fundus tissue classes corresponding to normal anatomy

Keywords

biomedical imaging; diseases; eye; image resolution; optical images; patient monitoring; photographic applications; 700 nm; disease diagnosis; disease monitoring; fundus tissue classes; high-resolution spectral imaging; human ocular fundus; normal anatomy; photographic examination; spatially resolved points; spectral imaging; spectral properties; systemic diseases; visual examination; visualization; Anatomy; Data visualization; Diseases; Humans; Optical scattering; Pathology; Piecewise linear techniques; Pigmentation; Pigments; Shape;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5674-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1999.804247

Filename

804247