Segmentation of Retinal Layers in OCT Images Based on CNN and Improved Graph Search

Yanhong Tang; Yunzhao Chen; Mingdi Liu; Yaguang Zeng; Yuexia Zhou

doi:10.3788/LOP57.241702

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