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Robust segmentation of corneal fibers from noisy images
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Jia Chen, James Jester, M. GopiAuthors Info & Claims
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Abstract
Corneal collagen structure, which plays an important role in determining visual acuity, has drawn a lot of research attention to exploring its geometric properties. Advancement of nonlinear optical (NLO) imaging provides a potential way for capturing fiber-level structure of cornea, however, the artifacts introduced by the NLO imaging process make image segmentation on such images a bottleneck for further analysis. Especially, the existing methods fail to preserve the branching points which are important for mechanical analysis. In this paper, we propose a hybrid image segmentation method, which integrates seeded region growing and iterative voting. Results show that our algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art techniques in segmenting fibers from background while preserving branching points. Finally, we show that, based on the segmentation result, branching points and the width of fibers can be determined more accurately than the other methods, which is critical for mechanical analysis on corneal structure.
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