Abstract Existing Active Contour methods suffer from the deficiencies of initialization
sensitivity, slow convergence, and being insufficient in the presence of image noise and …

Glaucoma is a neurodegenerative disease process that leads to progressive damage of the
optic nerve to produce visual impairment and blindness. Spectral-domain OCT technology …

Most image segmentation methods based on active contour model are sensitive to the
contour initialization. For the images of complex contents, it is difficult to initialize the contour …

This paper describes a fast and efficient method to automatically measure the ISNT and
CDR in retinal images. The method is based on a robust detection of the optic disk and …

D'Tech Thesis SummaryThe importance of medical imaging as a core component of several
medical application and healthcare diagnosis cannot be over emphasised. Integration of …

In the past few years, numerous efforts have been devoted to the segmentation and
characterization of the human heart from various medical image techniques. This paper …