Title
Glaucoma progression detection using variational expectation maximization algorithm
Abstract
Glaucoma, the second leading cause of blindness worldwide, is an optic neuropthy characterized by distinctive changes in the optic nerve head (ONH) and visual field. In this context, the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRT), a confocal scanning laser technology, has been commonly used to detect glaucoma and monitor its progression. In this paper, we present a new framework for detection of glaucomatour progression using the HRT images. In contrast to previous works that do not integrate a priori knowledge available on the images and particularly the spatial pixel dependency in the change detection map, we propose the use of the Markov Random Field to handle a such dependency. To our knowledge, the task of inferring the glaucomatous changes with a Variational Expectation Maximization VEM algorithm will be used for the first time in the glaucoma diagnosis framework. We then compared the diagnostic performance of the proposed framework to existing methods of progression detection.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ISBI.2013.6556615
Biomedical Imaging
Keywords
Field
DocType
Markov processes,biomedical optical imaging,diseases,expectation-maximisation algorithm,eye,optical tomography,random processes,HRT image,Heidelberg retina tomograph,Markov random field,VEM algorithm,blindness,confocal scanning laser technology,glaucoma progression detection,optic nerve head,optic neuropthy,spatial pixel dependency,variational expectation maximization algorithm,visual field,Glaucoma,Markov field,change detection,variational approximation
Computer vision,Glaucoma,Markov process,Change detection,Pattern recognition,Markov random field,Expectation–maximization algorithm,Computer science,A priori and a posteriori,Artificial intelligence,Pixel,Visual field
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1945-7928
978-1-4673-6456-0
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Belghith, A.110.35
Madhusudhanan Balasubramanian2152.71
Christopher Bowd3224.53
Robert N Weinreb4589.90