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

Abstract : This article presents a photoreceptor detection algorithm ap- plied 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 im- age. This algorithm is validated on a gold standard dataset obtained thanks to manual cones detections made by ophtalmologist physicians.