Robust Multi-Scale Superpixel Classification for Optic Cup Localization

As the global leading cause of irreversible blindness, glaucoma is estimated to visually impair 80 million people by 2020 [1]. It is the most prevalent of eye diseases in the United States and around the world. There are approximately 2.2 million diagnosed cases of glaucoma in the United States [2] and 60 million worldwide; however, this figure is significantly underreported due to the slow, asymptomatic progression of the disease, resulting in low disease detection until vision lost sets in. Undiagnosed rates are reported to be nearly 50% in United States and Australia [2] and as high as 90% in Singapore [3,4].

Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics - October 10, 2014 Category: Radiology Authors: Ngan-Meng Tan, Yanwu Xu, Wooi Boon Goh, Jiang Liu Source Type: research