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Fig. 6 Original B-scan ( top ) and the respective 2D-NCDF ( middle ) and 3D-NCDF ( bottom )
filtered versions of a CNV diseased eye
These facts allow us to speculate that the 3D filtering presented may represent
an important preprocessing towards a better image segmentation process, both
manually and by automatic algorithms.
Acknowledgements This study is supported in part by the Funda¸ao para a Ciencia e a Tec-
nologia (FCT) under the research project PTDC/SAU-BEB/103151/2008 and program COMPETE
(FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-010930). The authors would like to thanks Dr. Melissa Horne and Carl
Zeiss Meditec (Dublic, CA, USA) for their support on getting access to OCT data and AIBILI
Clinical Trial Center technicians for their support in managing data, working with patients and
performing scans. This study is registered at ClinicalTrials.org (ID: NCT00797524).
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