Livelayer: a semi-automatic software program for segmentation of layers and diabetic macular edema in optical coherence tomography images.

ABSTRACT: Given the capacity of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging to display structural changes in a wide variety of eye diseases and neurological disorders, the need for OCT image segmentation and the corresponding data interpretation is latterly felt more than ever before. In this paper, we wish to address this need by designing a semi-automatic software program for applying reliable segmentation of 8 different macular layers as well as outlining retinal pathologies such as diabetic macular edema. The software accommodates a novel graph-based semi-automatic method, called "Livelayer" which is designed for straightforward segmentation of retinal layers and fluids. This method is chiefly based on Dijkstra's Shortest Path First (SPF) algorithm and the Live-wire function together with some pr

SUBMITTER: Montazerin M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8253852 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature