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One native source of quality deterioration in medical imaging, and especially in our case optical coherence tomography (OCT), is the turbid biological media in which photon does not take a predictable path and many scattering events would…

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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is capable of non-destructively obtaining cross-sectional information of samples with micrometer spatial resolution, which plays an important role in ophthalmology and endovascular medicine. Measuring OCT…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Yang Jianlong , Zhang Haoran , Liu Chang , Gu Chengfu

This paper proposed a retinal image segmentation method based on conditional Generative Adversarial Network (cGAN) to segment optic disc. The proposed model consists of two successive networks: generator and discriminator. The generator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Vivek Kumar Singh , Hatem Rashwan , Farhan Akram , Nidhi Pandey , Md. Mostaf Kamal Sarker , Adel Saleh , Saddam Abdulwahab , Najlaa Maaroof , Santiago Romani , Domenec Puig

Non-mydriatic retinal color fundus photography (CFP) is widely available due to the advantage of not requiring pupillary dilation, however, is prone to poor quality due to operators, systemic imperfections, or patient-related causes.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-11 Wenhui Zhu , Peijie Qiu , Oana M. Dumitrascu , Jacob M. Sobczak , Mohammad Farazi , Zhangsihao Yang , Keshav Nandakumar , Yalin Wang

This paper focuses on using few-shot learning to improve the accuracy of classifying OCT diagnosis images with major and rare classes. We used the GAN-based augmentation strategy as a baseline and introduced several novel methods to further…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Cheng-Yu Tai , Ching-Wen Chen , Chi-Chin Wu , Bo-Chen Chiu , Cheng-Hung , Lin , Cheng-Kai Lu , Jia-Kang Wang , Tzu-Lun Huang

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is an emerging technique in the field of biomedical imaging, with applications in ophthalmology, dermatology, coronary imaging etc. Due to the underlying physics, OCT images usually suffer from a granular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Ahmadreza Baghaie , Roshan M. D'souza , Zeyun Yu

This paper proposes to go beyond the state-of-the-art deep convolutional neural network (CNN) by incorporating the information from object detection, focusing on dealing with fine-grained image classification. Unfortunately, CNN suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Xiaoyu Wang , Tianbao Yang , Guobin Chen , Yuanqing Lin

Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) images can be used for dose calculation in adaptive radiation therapy (ART). The main challenges are the large artefacts and inaccurate Hounsfield unit (HU) values. Currently, deformed planning CT images…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Xiao Liang , Liyuan Chen , Dan Nguyen , Zhiguo Zhou , Xuejun Gu , Ming Yang , Jing Wang , Steve Jiang

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) scanning is useful in detecting various retinal diseases. However, there are not enough ophthalmologists who can diagnose retinal OCT images in much of the world. To provide OCT screening inexpensively and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Ayaka Suzuki , Yoshiro Suzuki

Purpose. Localizing structures and estimating the motion of a specific target region are common problems for navigation during surgical interventions. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an imaging modality with a high spatial and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Marcel Bengs , Nils Gessert , Matthias Schlüter , Alexander Schlaefer

We develop a novel optical neural network (ONN) framework which introduces a degree of scalar invariance to image classification estima- tion. Taking a hint from the human eye, which has higher resolution near the center of the retina,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Grant Fennessy , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

With the introduction of spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT), resulting in a significant increase in acquisition speed, the fast and accurate segmentation of 3-D OCT scans has become evermore important. This paper presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Fabian Rathke , Stefan Schmidt , Christoph Schnörr

Retinal diseases are a leading cause of vision impairment and blindness, with timely diagnosis being critical for effective treatment. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) has become a standard imaging modality for retinal disease diagnosis,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Jilan Cheng , Guoli Long , Zeyu Zhang , Zhenjia Qi , Hanyu Wang , Libin Lu , Shuihua Wang , Yudong Zhang , Jin Hong

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive 3D modality widely used in ophthalmology for imaging the retina. Achieving automated, anatomically coherent retinal layer segmentation on OCT is important for the detection and monitoring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Botond Fazekas , Guilherme Aresta , Dmitrii Lachinov , Sophie Riedl , Julia Mai , Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth , Hrvoje Bogunovic

In many clinical settings, the use of both Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance (MRI) is necessary to pursue a thorough understanding of the patient's anatomy and to plan a suitable therapeutical strategy; this is often the case…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Leonardo Crespi , Samuele Camnasio , Damiano Dei , Nicola Lambri , Pietro Mancosu , Marta Scorsetti , Daniele Loiacono

Purpose: To develop a deep learning approach to digitally-stain optical coherence tomography (OCT) images of the optic nerve head (ONH). Methods: A horizontal B-scan was acquired through the center of the ONH using OCT (Spectralis) for 1…

We introduce StrCGAN (Stellar Cyclic GAN), a generative model designed to enhance low-resolution astrophotography images. Our goal is to reconstruct high fidelity ground truth like representations of stellar objects, a task that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Shantanusinh Parmar , Silas Janke

The ultra-wide optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) has become an important imaging modality in diabetic retinopathy (DR) diagnosis. However, there are few researches focusing on automatic DR analysis using ultra-wide OCTA. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Junlin Hou , Fan Xiao , Jilan Xu , Yuejie Zhang , Haidong Zou , Rui Feng

Research exploring CycleGAN-based synthetic image generation has recently accelerated in the medical community, as it is able to leverage unpaired datasets effectively. However, clinical acceptance of these synthetic images pose a…

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Visual field tests (VFT) are pivotal for glaucoma diagnosis and conducted regularly to monitor disease progression. Here we address the question to what degree aggregate VFT measurements such as Visual Field Index (VFI) and Mean Deviation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Stefan Maetschke , Bhavna Antony , Hiroshi Ishikawa , Gadi Wollstein , Joel Schuman , Rahil Garnavi