Automatic segmentation of the anterior chamber in in vivo high-frequency ultrasound images of the eye

When monitoring glaucoma, or planning intraocular lens surgery, ophthalmologists need to visualize and measure the anatomical structures of the eye like the anterior chamber, a fluid filled space between the posterior surface of the cornea and the iris, or the iridocorneal angle. Our long term goal consists in setting up an accurate and automatic measurement method of the anterior chamber. Even if the segmentation process we discuss and illustrate by examples is not complete, it is efficient to localize the cornea, the lens and the iridocorneal angle in high frequency in vivo ultrasound acquisitions.