Optic Disk

Known as: disc optic, Papilla, Optic, Nerve Head, Optic 
A portion of the retina at which the axons of the ganglion cells exit the eyeball to form the optic nerve. No light-sensitive photoreceptors are… (More)
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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Optic Disk and Cup Segmentation From Monocular Color Retinal Images for Glaucoma Assessment
Automatic retinal image analysis is emerging as an important screening tool for early detection of eye diseases. Glaucoma is one… (More)
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Segmentation of the optic disk in color eye fundus images using an adaptive morphological approach
The identification of some important retinal anatomical regions is a prerequisite for the computer aided diagnosis of several… (More)
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Optic nerve head segmentation
Reliable and efficient optic disk localization and segmentation are important tasks in automated retinal screening. General… (More)
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Fast and robust optic disc detection using pyramidal decomposition and Hausdorff-based template matching
Reports on the design and test of an image processing algorithm for the localization of the optic disk (OD) in low-resolution… (More)
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Automated localisation of the optic disc, fovea, and retinal blood vessels from digital colour fundus images.
AIM To recognise automatically the main components of the fundus on digital colour images. METHODS The main features of a… (More)
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Review
1999
Review
1999
Ophthalmoscopic evaluation of the optic nerve head.
Optic nerve diseases, such as the glaucomas, lead to changes in the intrapapillary and parapapillary region of the optic nerve… (More)
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Identification of the Optic Disk Boundary in Retinal Images using Active Contours
This paper describes a technique for identifying the boundary of the optic disk in digital images of the retina, using an… (More)
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Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Initial glaucomatous optic disk and retinal nerve fiber layer abnormalities and their progression.
We attempted to identify the initial glaucomatous changes of the optic disk and retinal nerve fiber layer and to analyze how… (More)
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Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Human photoreceptor topography.
We have measured the spatial density of cones and rods in eight whole-mounted human retinas, obtained from seven individuals… (More)
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Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Optic nerve damage in human glaucoma. II. The site of injury and susceptibility to damage.
We examined the histologic structure of the optic nerve head in 15 eyes of nine persons with a known glaucoma history. All had… (More)
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