Texture based prelens tear film segmentation in interferometry images

  • Authors:
  • Dijia Wu;Kim L. Boyer;Jason J. Nichols;Peter E. King-Smith

  • Affiliations:
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, 12180, Troy, NY, USA;Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, 12180, Troy, NY, USA;The Ohio State University, College of Optometry, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA;The Ohio State University, College of Optometry, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA

  • Venue:
  • Machine Vision and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Interferometric imaging has been identified as a novel approach to the evaluation of prelens tear film (PLTF) thickness in contact lens patients. In this paper, we present a texture based segmentation approach for the detection of tear film breakup regions on interferometry images. First, the textural information was extracted from the studied images using a bank of Gabor filters. A novel classifier, EM-MDA, which integrates traditional Expectation-Maximization with Multiple Discriminant Analysis, was then trained for the recognition of breakup regions of the PLTF. Experimental results provided a correct classification rate of 91.0% which proved significantly higher compared to traditional EM or well known Linear Discriminant Analysis.