In this paper we show how it might be possible to adapt asynchronous transfer mode technology to satellite links. Asynchronous transfer mode is a high-speed protocol designed with optic ber as the intended transmission media. Several problems arise when satellite channels are used. We propose to move the error recovery and detection from one layer of the asynchronous transfer mode protocol to a...

Background. Optic disk melanocytoma is a primary tumor of the optic disk that represents a clinical diagnostic challenge due to its similarities with melanoma. Purpose. The authors present three cases in which genetic expression profiling was used to identify tumor prognosis of optic disk melanocytoma. Case Series. In two cases fine-needle aspiration biopsy was performed to obtain tissue throug...

We present an overview of the design and test of an image processing procedure for detecting all important anatomical structures in color fundus images. These structures are the optic disk, the macula and the retinal network. The algorithm proceeds through five main steps: (1) automatic mask generation using pixels value statistics and color threshold, (2) visual image quality assessment using ...

PURPOSE Description of the results of vitrectomy and silicone oil tamponade to repair serous macular detachment associated with optic disk pit. DESIGN Interventional case report. METHODS The authors report on a 17-year-old girl with serous macular detachment with a very thin layer near the fovea which clinically simulated a lamellar macular hole and macular schisis associated with an optic ...

The identification of some important retinal anatomical regions is a prerequisite for the computer aided diagnosis of several retinal diseases. In this paper, we propose a new adaptive method for the automatic segmentation of the optic disk in digital color fundus images, using mathematical morphology. The proposed method has been designed to be robust under varying illumination and image acqui...

Retinal exudates are a characteristic feature of many retinal diseases such as Diabetic Retinopathy. We address the development of a method to quantitatively diagnose these random yellow patches in colour retinal images automatically. After a colour normalisation and contrast enhancement preprocessing step, the colour retinal image is segmented using Fuzzy C-Means clustering. We then classify t...

Exudates are one of the earliest and most prevalent symptoms of Diabetic Retinopathy(DR), which is a serious complication of diabetes mellitus and a major cause of blindness worldwide. Certain areas of the retina with such conditions are to be photocoagulated by laser to stop the disease progress and prevent blindness. Outlining these areas is dependent on outlining the exudates, the blood vess...

A deformable-model based approach is presented in this paper for robust detection of optic disk and cup boundaries. Earlier work on disk boundary detection up to now could not effectively solve the problem of vessel occlusion. The method proposed here improves and extends the original snake, which is essentially a deforming-only technique, in two aspects: knowledge-based clustering and smoothin...