Analysis of Visual Appearance of Retinal Nerve Fibers in High Resolution Fundus Images: A Study on Normal Subjects

作者:Kolar Radim*; Tornow Ralf P; Laemmer Robert; Odstrcilik Jan; Mayer Markus A; Gazarek Jiri; Jan Jiri; Kubena Tomas; Cernosek Pavel
来源:Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, 2013, 2013: UNSP 134543.
DOI:10.1155/2013/134543

摘要

The retinal ganglion axons are an important part of the visual system, which can be directly observed by fundus camera. The layer they form together inside the retina is the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL). This paper describes results of a texture RNFL analysis in color fundus photographs and compares these results with quantitative measurement of RNFL thickness obtained from optical coherence tomography on normal subjects. It is shown that local mean value, standard deviation, and Shannon entropy extracted from the green and blue channel of fundus images are correlated with corresponding RNFL thickness. The linear correlation coefficients achieved values 0.694, 0.547, and 0.512 for respective features measured on 439 retinal positions in the peripapillary area from 23 eyes of 15 different normal subjects.

  • 出版日期2013