BACKGROUND: For eye diseases, such as glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration (ARMD), involved in long-term degeneration procedure, longitudinal comparison of retinal images is a common step for reliable diagnosis of these kinds of diseases. AIMS: To provide a retinal image registration approach for longitudinal retinal image alignment and comparison. METHOD: Two image registration solutions were proposed for facing different image qualities of retinal images to make the registration methods more robust and feasible in a clinical application system. RESULTS: Thirty pairs of longitudinal retinal images were used for the registration test. The experiments showed both solutions provided good performance for the accurate image registrations with efficiency. CONCLUSION: We proposed a set of retinal image registration solutions for longitudinal retinal image observation and comparison targeting a clinical application environment.
BACKGROUND: For eye diseases, such as glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration (ARMD), involved in long-term degeneration procedure, longitudinal comparison of retinal images is a common step for reliable diagnosis of these kinds of diseases. AIMS: To provide a retinal image registration approach for longitudinal retinal image alignment and comparison. METHOD: Two image registration solutions were proposed for facing different image qualities of retinal images to make the registration methods more robust and feasible in a clinical application system. RESULTS: Thirty pairs of longitudinal retinal images were used for the registration test. The experiments showed both solutions provided good performance for the accurate image registrations with efficiency. CONCLUSION: We proposed a set of retinal image registration solutions for longitudinal retinal image observation and comparison targeting a clinical application environment.
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ARMD; Glaucoma; Retinal image registration; clinical decision support
Authors: Jian Chen; Jie Tian; Noah Lee; Jian Zheng; R Theodore Smith; Andrew F Laine Journal: IEEE Trans Biomed Eng Date: 2010-02-18 Impact factor: 4.538
Authors: Isabel de la Torre-Díez; Borja Martínez-Pérez; Miguel López-Coronado; Javier Rodríguez Díaz; Miguel Maldonado López Journal: J Med Syst Date: 2014-12-04 Impact factor: 4.460