Title
Location of the Pupil-Iris Border in Slit-Lamp Images of the Cornea
Abstract
We present results for an active contour that finds the pupil-iris border in slit lamp images of the eye. Preprocessing involves producing a variance image from the original image and then locating the annulus, of a given size, which has the lowest mean variance. The center of this annulus falls inside the pupil, giving a starting position for a discrete circular active contour (DCAC). The DCAC is moved under the influence of two forces-external and internal. The external force is based on the gray-scales immediately inside and outside of the contour, at each vertex, in both the original and variance images and pushes the vertices inwards. The internal force acts to move the contour towards a perfect polygon, 脝 larger than the current polygon. Repeated trials with decreasing values of 脝 are performed until equilibrium is reached between the two forces and the pupil/iris border has been found.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1109/ICIAP.1999.797683
ICIAP
Keywords
Field
DocType
slit-lamp images,perfect polygon,current polygon,lowest mean variance,pupil-iris border,external force,internal force,variance image,discrete circular active contour,iris border,original image,active contour,information science,head,annulus,iris,computer science,edge detection,preprocessing
Active contour model,Computer vision,Polygon,Vertex (geometry),Computer science,Edge detection,Annulus (oil well),Cornea,Pupil,Artificial intelligence,Slit lamp
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-0040-4
20
1.26
References 
Authors
10
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nicola Ritter1373.10
Robyn Owens2137575.54
P. van Saarloos3232.41
James Cooper4201.59