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Systemic diseases, such as hypertension and diabetes, are associated with changes in the retinal microvasculature. Although a number of studies have been performed on the quantitative assessment of the geometrical patterns of the retinal vasculature, previous work has been confined to 2 dimensional (2D) analyses. In this paper, we present an approach to obtain a 3D reconstruction of the retinal arteries from a pair of 2D retinal images acquired in vivo. A simple essential matrix based self-calibration approach was employed for the “fundus camera-eye” system. Vessel segmentation was performed using a semi-automatic approach and correspondence between points from different images was calculated. The results of 3D reconstruction show the centreline of retinal vessels and their 3D curvature clearly. Three-dimensional reconstruction of the retinal vessels is feasible and may be useful in future studies of the retinal vasculature in disease.
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Liu, D., Wood, N.B., Xu, X.Y., Witt, N., Hughes, A.D., SAMcG, T. (2009). 3D Reconstruction of the Retinal Arterial Tree Using Subject-Specific Fundus Images. In: Tavares, J.M.R.S., Jorge, R.M.N. (eds) Advances in Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing. Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9086-8_11
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