From Retinal Processing to Retinal Image Processing and Back

Improved understanding of how visual information is processed in the retina and early visual cortex is helping the development of improved algorithms for image processing in two and three-dimensions. I will discuss example of this back and forth, starting at neural encoding by ganglion cells of complex visual scenes, over optimal linear combinations of filter kernels for object detection in a variety of medical images, leading to automated diagnosis and image guided management of retinal disorders that outperforms clinicians, to how image analysis of 3D optical coherence images leads to structural biomarkers that are highly associated with function in inherited diseases and glaucoma.

Speaker: Michael D. Abramoff, Univ. of Iowa