Automatic montaging of corneal sub-basal nerve images for the composition of a wide-range mosaic

Author

Poletti, Enea ; Wigdahl, Jeffrey ; Guimaraes, Pedro ; Ruggeri, Alfredo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Univ. of Padova, Padua, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

26-30 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

5426

Lastpage

5429

Abstract

We present and discuss a computerized system able to provide a wide-range mosaic of the sub-basal nerve layer of central cornea, built from several images acquired in-vivo with confocal microscopy. The montage is performed by a fast, reliable and fully automatic computerized system that does not require any expedient or manual adjustment during the acquisition process. The resulting mosaic provides a large high quality image, which should significantly aid clinicians in evaluating and assessing in a more reliable way the pathologic signs of interest.

Keywords

biomedical optical imaging; eye; image segmentation; medical image processing; neurophysiology; optical microscopy; automatic computerized system; automatic corneal sub-basal nerve image montaging; central cornea; high quality image; image acquisition; in vivo confocal microscopy; sub-basal nerve layer; wide-range mosaic; Clustering algorithms; Cornea; Correlation; In vivo; Manuals; Microscopy; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944853

Filename

6944853