Segmentation of crystalline lens in photorefraction video

  • Authors:
  • Mark Wendt;Shishir K. Shah

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Houston, Houston, TX;University of Houston, Houston, TX

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Seventh Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

With an increase in the percentage of people over the age of 65 years or older, there is a growing interest in finding ways to slow or reverse some of the effects of aging on the human body. One of these effects is the loss in the ability of the human eye to visually focus on near objects. Understanding the properties of the natural lens and the associated mechanisms of accommodation will greatly increase our knowledge to identify alternate solutions to reverse this phenomenon. Towards that end, a technique called photorefraction is currently being used in laboratory studies involving monkeys. To quantitate the lens properties, there is a need to accurately measure monkey lenses in images produced by this technique. In this paper, we present two probabilistic methods for segmenting the lens from photorefraction video sequences. Results of the developed methods are compared and evaluated against ground-truth segmentations. In addition, the results obtained are also compared to those obtained by a level set segmentation method.