Table Of ContentComputational Retinal
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Tools, Applications and
Perspectives
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Balocco, A., et al., Computing and Visualization for Intravascular Imaging and
Computer Assisted Stenting, 9780128110188
Dalca, A.V., et al., Imaging Genetics, 9780128139684
Depeursinge, A., et al., Biomedical Texture Analysis, 9780128121337
Munsell, B., et al., Connectomics, 9780128138380
Pennec, X., et al., Riemannian Geometric Statistics in Medical Image Analysis,
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Wu, G., and Sabuncu, M., Machine Learning and Medical Imaging, 9780128040768
Zhou S.K., Medical Image Recognition, Segmentation and Parsing, 9780128025819
Zhou, S.K., et al., Deep Learning for Medical Image Analysis, 9780128104088
Zhou, S.K., et al., Handbook of Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted
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Computational Retinal
Image Analysis
Tools, Applications and
Perspectives
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Contributors
Samaneh Abbasi-Sureshjani
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology,
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Bashir Al-Diri
School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Stefanos Apostolopoulos
RetinAI Medical AG, Bern, Switzerland
Antonis A. Argyros
Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology—
Hellas (FORTH); Computer Science Department, University of Crete,
Heraklion, Greece
Lucia Ballerini
VAMPIRE Project, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh,
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Sarah A. Barman
School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Kingston University, Kingston
upon Thames, United Kingdom,
Erik J. Bekkers
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of
Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Hrvoje Bogunović
Christian Doppler Laboratory for Ophthalmic Image Analysis, Department of
Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Adrian Bradu
School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Catey Bunce
Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London; Moorfields Eye
Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; UCL Institute of Ophthalmology; London School
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Philip I. Burgess
Department of Eye and Vision Science, University of Liverpool; St Paul’s Eye
Unit, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Philippe Burlina
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Laurel ; Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States
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xviii Contributors
Francesco Calivá
Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Musculoskeletal Quantitative
Imaging Research Group, University of California, San Francisco, San
Francisco, CA, United States
Aurélio Campilho
INESC TEC—Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and
Science; Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Guillem Carles
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow,
United Kingdom
Jun Cheng
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo,
Zhejiang, China
Li Cheng
A*STAR, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore, Singapore; ECE, University of
Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Carol Yim-lui Cheung
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The Chinese University of
Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
Piotr Chudzik
School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Carlos Ciller
RetinAI Medical AG, Bern, Switzerland
Adam Cohen
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Laurel; Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States
Pedro Costa
INESC TEC—Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and
Science, Porto, Portugal
Gabriela Czanner
Department of Applied Mathematics, Liverpool John Moores University; Clinical
Eye Research Centre, Royal Liverpool University Hospital; Department of Eye
and Vision Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Behdad Dashtbozorg
Department of Surgery, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
Alexander Doney
Division of Population Health and Genomics, University of Dundee, Ninewells
Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, United Kingdom
Huazhu Fu
A*STAR, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, Singapore; Inception
Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Contributors xix
Adrian Galdran
INESC TEC—Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and
Science, Porto, Portugal
Jakob Grauslund
Department of Ophthalmology and Department of Clinical Research, Odense
University Hospital and University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Zaiwang Gu
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo,
Zhejiang, China
Pedro Guimarães
Chair for Clinical Bioinformatics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
Maged Habib
Sunderland Eye Infirmary, South Shields and Sunderland City Hospitals NHS
Foundation Trust, Sunderland, United Kingdom
Andrew R. Harvey
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow,
United Kingdom
Carlos Hernandez-Matas
Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology—
Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece
Stephen Hogg
VAMPIRE Project, Computing (SSEN), University of Dundee, Dundee, United
Kingdom
Wynne Hsu
School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Zhihong Jewel Hu
Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Fan Huang
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology,
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Yan Huang
Artificial Intelligence Innovation Business (AIIB), Baidu, Beijing, China
Emily R. Jefferson
Health Informatics Centre, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
Ryo Kawasaki
Department of Vision Informatics, Osaka University Graduate School of
Medicine, Suita, Japan
Le Van La
Baidu Research Institute (BRI), Baidu, Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Mong Li Lee
School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
xx Contributors
Huiqi Li
Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
Xing Li
Baidu Research Institute (BRI), Baidu, Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Zhengguo Li
Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Institute for Infocomm
Research, Singapore
Gilbert Lim
School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Jiang Liu
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo,
Zhejiang, China
Xuan Liu
Artificial Intelligence Group, Baidu, Beijing, China
Xingzheng Lyu
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Tom MacGillivray
VAMPIRE Project, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh,
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Sarah McGrory
Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of
Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Andrew McNeil
VAMPIRE Project, Computing (SSEN), University of Dundee, Dundee, United
Kingdom
Muthu Rama Krishnan Mookiah
VAMPIRE Project, Computing (SSEN), University of Dundee, Dundee, United
Kingdom
Giovanni Ometto
Optometry and Visual Science, School of Health Sciences, University of London,
London, United Kingdom
Christopher G. Owen
Population Health Research Institute, St. George’s University of London,
London, United Kingdom
Adrian Podoleanu
School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Alicja R. Rudnicka
Population Health Research Institute, St. George’s University of London,
London, United Kingdom
Alfredo Ruggeri
Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Contributors xxi
Srinivas Reddy Sadda
Doheny Eye Institute; Department of Ophthalmology, University of California—
Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth
Christian Doppler Laboratory for Ophthalmic Image Analysis, Department of
Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Raphael Sznitman
ARTORG Center, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Bart M. ter Haar Romeny
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology,
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Daniel Shu Wei Ting
Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore,
Singapore
Emanuele Trucco
VAMPIRE Project, Computing (SSEN), University of Dundee, Dundee, United
Kingdom
Wolf-Dieter Vogl
Christian Doppler Laboratory for Ophthalmic Image Analysis, Department of
Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Sebastian M. Waldstein
Christian Doppler Laboratory for Ophthalmic Image Analysis, Department of
Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Lei Wang
Artificial Intelligence Innovation Business (AIIB), Baidu, Beijing, China
Roshan A. Welikala
School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Kingston University, Kingston
upon Thames, United Kingdom
Jeffrey Wigdahl
VisonQuest Biomedical LLC, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Bryan M. Williams
Department of Eye and Vision Science, University of Liverpool; St Paul’s Eye
Unit, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Sebastian Wolf
Department of Ophthalmology, Inselspital, University Hospital, University of
Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Damon Wing Kee Wong
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Posey Po-yin Wong
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The Chinese University of
Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
