Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2012, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (6): 619-623.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2012.06.010

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Automatic Measurement of Central Cornea Thickness of Eye Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography Image

SHU Peng1, SUN Yan-kui1, TIAN Xiao-lin2   

  1. 1. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
    2. Faculty of Information Technology, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao SAR 999078, China
  • Received:2011-11-07 Revised:2012-02-22 Online:2012-11-27 Published:2012-02-22

Abstract:  To obtain quantitative parameters automatically and help medical diagnosis, automatic measurement of central cornea thickness based on edge detection and random sample consensus (RANSAC) is employed. The initial edge in the eye anterior segment optical coherence tomography (OCT) image is obtained with an edge detector. Upper and lower edges of the central cornea are extraxted using the RANSAC circle fitting method. The central cornea thickness is then computed based on the edges. Experiments show that the proposed method can avoid the effect of light beam crossing, and good results comparable to manual analysis can be obtained in real time, indicating that the method has potential applications in the future.

Key words: central cornea thickness, random sample consensus, edge detector, optical coherence tomography, eye anterior segment tissue

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