Title
Registration of Color and OCT Fundus Images Using Low-dimensional Step Pattern Analysis
Abstract
Existing feature descriptor-based methods on retinal image registration are mainly based on scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) or partial intensity invariant feature descriptor (PIIFD). While these descriptors are many times being exploited, they have not been applied to color fundus and optical coherence tomography (OCT) fundus image pairs. OCT fundus images are challenging to register as they are often degraded by speckle noise. The descriptors also demand high dimensionality to adequately represent the features of interest. To this end, this paper presents a registration algorithm coined low-dimensional step pattern analysis (LoSPA), tailored to achieve low dimensionality while providing sufficient distinctiveness to effectively register OCT fundus images with color fundus photographs. The algorithm locates hypotheses of robust corner features based on connecting edges from the edge maps, mainly formed by vascular junctions. It continues with describing the corner features in a rotation invariant manner using step patterns. These customized step patterns are insensitive to intensity changes. We conduct comparative evaluation and LoSPA achieves a higher success rate in registration when compared to the state-of-the-art algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-24571-3_26
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Registration,optical coherence tomography,feature descriptor,LoSPA
Computer vision,Scale-invariant feature transform,Feature descriptor,Optical coherence tomography,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Pattern analysis,Fundus (eye),Curse of dimensionality,Artificial intelligence,Invariant (mathematics),Speckle noise
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9350
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
14
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jimmy Addison Lee1205.57
Jun Cheng214910.18
Guozhen Xu351.16
Ee Ping Ong431333.36
Beng Hai Lee5133.28
Damon Wing Kee Wong643437.78
Jiang Liu729942.50