Image Analysis and Modeling in Ophthalmology

E Y K Ng, received his PhD at Cambridge University. He is a faculty member at the Nanyang Technological University in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Ng is editor-in-chief for the J. of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology and J. Med. Imaging and Health Informatics; assoc. editor for Int. J. of Rotating Machinery, Computational Fluid Dynamics J., Int. J. of Breast Cancer, Chinese J. of Medicine, Open Medical Informatics J., Open Numerical Methods J., and J. of Healthcare Engineering; and strategy assoc. editor-in-chief for World J. of Clinical Oncology. Ng has published more than 255 SCI journal papers, and co-edited 11 books including Human Eye Imaging and Modeling by CRC (2011). U. Rajendra Acharya, PhD, DEng is a visiting faculty in Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Malaya, Malaysia; adjunct faculty in Singapore Institute of Technology-University of Glasgow, Singapore; associate faculty in SIM University, Singapore; and adjunct faculty in Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, India. He received his Ph.D. from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India and D Engg from Chiba University, Japan. He has published more than 275 papers in refereed international SCI-IF journals, international conference proceedings, textbook chapters, and books. His major interests are in biomedical signal processing, bio-imaging, data mining, visualization, and biophysics. Aurélio Campilho, is a full professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP), Portugal. He served as president of the Biomedical Engineering Institute, as director of the doctoral program in Electrical and Computer Engineering at FEUP, and as a member of the Scientific Committee of the Master Degree in Bioengineering at the University of Porto. His current research interests include the areas of medical image analysis, image processing, and computer vision. He served as associate editor of the journals IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and of the Machine Vision Applications journal. He authored one book, co-edited 12 books, and published more than 150 papers in journals and conferences. Jasjit S. Suri, MS, PhD, MBA, Fellow AIMBE, has spent over 25 years in the field of biomedical engineering/sciences and its management. He received his masters from University of Illinois, Chicago, doctorate from University of Washington, Seattle, and executive management education from Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland. Dr. Suri has written over 350 peer-reviewed publications, and is a committee member of several journals and companies. Dr. Suri was crowned with the President’s Gold medal in 1980 and the Fellow of American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), awarded by National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC in 2004.

Ultrasound Biomicroscopic Imaging of the Anterior Chamber Angle. Automated Glaucoma Identification Using Retinal Fundus Images: A Hybrid Texture Feature Extraction Paradigm. Ensemble Classification Applied to Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation: Theory and Implementation. Computer Vision Algorithms Applied to Retinal Vessel Segmentation and Quantification of Vessel Caliber. Segmentation of the Vascular Network of the Retina. Automatic Analysis of the Microaneurysm Turnover in a Web-Based Framework for Retinal Analysis. A-Levelset-Based Automatic Cup-to-Disc Ratio Measurement for Glaucoma Diagnosis from Fundus Image. The Singapore Eye Vessel Assessment System. Quantification of Diabetic Retinopathy Using Digital Fundus Images. Diagnostics Instruments for Glaucoma Detection. Automated Cup-to-Disc Ratio Estimation for Glaucoma Diagnosis in Retinal Fundus Images. Arteriovenous Ratio Calculation Using Image-Processing Techniques. Survey on Techniques Used in Iris Recognition Systems. Formal Design and Development of an Anterior Segment Eye Disease Classification System. Modeling of Laser-Induced Thermal Damage to the Retina and the Cornea. Automatization of Dry Eye Syndrome Tests. Thermal Modeling of the Ageing Eye. A Perspective Review on the Use of In Vivo Confocal Microscopy in the Ocular Surface. Computational Modeling of Thermal Damage Induced by Laser in a Choroidal Melanoma.