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Diagnostic Capability of Optical Coherence Tomography Based Quantitative Analysis for Various Eye Diseases and Additional Factors Affecting Morphological Measurements

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Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography Image Analysis

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Abstract

Successful retinal layer segmentation allows quantitative studies of the retinal structures based on OCT images, which mainly refer to the layer thickness measurements and morphology analyses. The aim of this chapter is to summarize the diagnostic capability of OCT based quantitative analysis for various eye diseases and additional factors affecting morphological measurements.

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Cabrera DeBuc, D., Tian, J., Szigeti, A., Tátrai, E., Varga, B.E., Somfai, G.M. (2019). Diagnostic Capability of Optical Coherence Tomography Based Quantitative Analysis for Various Eye Diseases and Additional Factors Affecting Morphological Measurements. In: Chen, X., Shi, F., Chen, H. (eds) Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography Image Analysis. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1825-2_6

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