Automatic Photoreceptor Detection in In-Vivo Adaptive Optics Retinal Images: Statistical Validation

This article presents a photoreceptor detection algorithm applied to in-vivo Adaptive Optics (AO) images of the retina obtained from an advanced ophthalmic diagnosis device. Our algorithm is based on a recursive construction of thresholded connected components when the seeds of the recursions are the regional maxima of the deconvoluted image. This algorithm is validated on a gold standard dataset obtained thanks to manual cones detections made by ophtalmologist physicians.

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