MicroRetina: a new tool for retinal images analysis

In the study of the retinal diseases are nowadays available several kind of diagnostic tests. However, their diagnostic findings are typically images of anatomical portions of the eye obtained by a different optical method and, consequently, by presenting, each of them, a different resolution, rotation and angle of view. Moreover, each of these diagnostic images is useful to highlight only few aspects of the characteristic lesions of the occurring pathology. For this reason, the ophthalmologist needs to analyze and compare different images obtained from different diagnostic instrumentations. On this topic, the registration of such retinal images presents a significant importance in the diagnosis as well as in the evaluation of the retinal disease progression. In this paper, we depict a new software tool (MicroRetina) properly tailored for the comparative analysis of images of the fundus oculi, acquired during diagnostic tests by different ophthalmic instruments. In particular, it will be able to give a helpful support to perform comparative analysis of different diagnostic images of the fundus oculi allowing the ophthalmologist to perform in real-time the comparative analysis of the different clinical findings allowing him to have further diagnostic information not otherwise available by the analysis of single image only.