BACKGROUND Fundus autofluorescence studies in eyes with macular holes (MHs) have shown a hyperautofluorescent spot corresponding to the hole and a hypoautofluorescent ring corresponding to the fluid cuff surrounding the hole. The purpose of this report is to present three cases of MH with a different fundus autofluorescence pattern. CASE REPORTS Case 1 was a 62-year-old woman who did not know...

OBJECTIVE To describe and evaluate the performance of an automated CAD system for detection of glaucoma from color fundus photographs. DESIGN AND SETTING Color fundus photographs of 2252 eyes from 1126 subjects were collected from 2 centers: Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai and Coimbatore, India. The images of 1926 eyes (963 subjects) were used to train an automated image analysis-based system, ...

Retinal vasculature is a network of vessels in the retinal layer. In ophthalmology, information of retinal vasculature in analyzing fundus images is important for early detection of diseases related to the retina, e.g. diabetic retinopathy. However, in fundus images the contrast between retinal vasculature and the background is very low. As a result, analyzing or visualizing tiny retinal vascul...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT), MP-1 microperimetry, and fundus autofluorescence imaging for planning surgical procedures in combined hamartomas of the retina and retinal pigment epithelium (CHR-RPE) and following epiretinal membrane removal. METHODS In an interventional retrospective case series, six cons...

Telokin phosphorylation by cyclic GMP-dependent protein kinase facilitates smooth muscle relaxation. In this study we examined the relaxation of gastric fundus smooth muscles from basal tone, or pre-contracted with KCl or carbachol (CCh), and the phosphorylation of telokin S13, myosin light chain (MLC) S19, MYPT1 T853, T696, and CPI-17 T38 in response to 8-Bromo-cGMP, the NO donor sodium nitrop...

AIM To evaluate the reproducibility of the background fundus autofluorescence measurements obtained using a confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscope. METHODS 10 normal volunteers and 10 patients with retinal disease were included in the study. One eye per subject was chosen randomly. Five images of the same eye of each individual were obtained, after pupillary dilatation, by two investigators u...

This paper presents a novel approach to the fast localization and extraction of optic disc from fundus images of the human retina. Optic disc continues to be a major landmark for fundus image registration and is indispensible for the understanding of retinal fundus images. For the detection of optic disc, we first decompose the image into its bit planes. The lower order bit planes are found to ...

The authors present enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography (EDI OCT) and fundus autofluorescence (FAF) characteristics of a patient with bilateral choroidal osteoma and try to make a correlation between two imaging techniques. Two eyes of a patient with choroidal osteoma underwent complete ophthalmic examination. Enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography revealed a cage-l...

The effect of circulatory transit of the gastric fundus on serum levels of endogenous gastrin measured directly by radioimmunoassay has been studied in 14 dogs. Gastrin was measured in samples obtained simultaneously from the arterial inflow and venous outflow of the gastric fundus. During basal conditions, transit of the gastric fundus resulted in no change in gastrin concentration. During per...

Biometric system is a pattern-recognition system that recognizes a person based on the personal physiological or behavioural characteristics that the person possesses. Human retina, one source of biometric provides the most reliable and with the emerging potentials of automated image processing a highly secure means of authentication is possible. The proposed system describes the development of...