MAPPING THE HUMAN RETINA

The new therapeutic method of scotoma-based photocoagulation (SBP) dev eloped at the Vienna Eye Clinic for diagnosis and treatment of age-rel ated macular degeneration requires retinal maps from scanning laser op hthalmoscope images, This paper describes in detail all necessary imag e analysis steps for map generation. A prototype software system for f ully automatic map generation has been implemented and tested on a rep resentative dataset selected from a clinical study with 50 patients. T he map required for the SEP treatment can be reliably extracted in all eases. Thus, algorithms presented in this paper should be directly ap plicable in daily clinical routine without major modifications.