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Segmentation of retinal vessels from retinal fundus images is the key step in the automatic retinal image analysis. In this paper, we propose a new unsupervised automatic method to segment the retinal vessels from retinal fundus images.…

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The choroid provides oxygen and nourishment to the outer retina thus is related to the pathology of various ocular diseases. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is advantageous in visualizing and quantifying the choroid in vivo. (1) The…

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This paper presents an innovative approach to intraoperative Optical Coherence Tomography (iOCT) image segmentation in ophthalmic surgery, leveraging statistical analysis of speckle patterns to incorporate statistical pathology-specific…

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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is one of the non-invasive and easy-to-acquire biomarkers (the thickness of the retinal layers, which is detectable within OCT scans) being investigated to diagnose Alzheimer's disease (AD). This work aims…

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Accurate classification of port wine stains (PWS, vascular malformations present at birth), is critical for subsequent treatment planning. However, the current method of classifying PWS based on the external skin appearance rarely reflects…

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Retinal vessel segmentation is a crucial step in diagnosing and screening various diseases, including diabetes, ophthalmologic diseases, and cardiovascular diseases. In this paper, we propose an effective and efficient method for vessel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-24 Zhun Fan , Jiajie Mo , Benzhang Qiu , Wenji Li , Guijie Zhu , Chong Li , Jianye Hu , Yibiao Rong , Xinjian Chen

While there have been increased researches using deep learning techniques for the extraction of vascular structure from the 2D en face OCTA, for such approach, it is known that the data annotation process on the curvilinear structure like…

Focusing on the complicated pathological features, such as blurred boundaries, severe scale differences between symptoms, background noise interference, etc., in the task of retinal edema lesions joint segmentation from OCT images and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-03 Meng Wang , Kai Yu , Chun-Mei Feng , Ke Zou , Yanyu Xu , Qingquan Meng , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Yong Liu , Huazhu Fu

Human veins are important for carrying the blood from the body-parts to the heart. The improper functioning of the human veins may arise from several venous diseases. Varicose vein is one such disease wherein back flow of blood can occur,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Maryam Viqar , Violeta Madjarova , Vipul Baghel , Elena Stoykova

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) provides valuable insights in ophthalmology, cardiology, and neurology due to high-resolution, cross-sectional images of the retina. One critical task for ophthalmologists using OCT is delineation of…

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Doppler holography is an emerging retinal imaging technique that captures the dynamic behavior of blood flow with high temporal resolution, enabling quantitative assessment of retinal hemodynamics. This requires accurate segmentation of…

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Currently, diagnosis of skin diseases is based primarily on visual pattern recognition skills and expertise of the physician observing the lesion. Even though dermatologists are trained to recognize patterns of morphology, it is still a…

We report on using a laser Doppler processing of Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) data for the assessment of pulsatile blood flow in the choriocapillaris. Signal fluctuations in B-scans recorded at 2 kHz were analyzed by…

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive volumetric imaging modality with high spatial and temporal resolution. For imaging larger tissue structures, OCT probes need to be moved to scan the respective area. For handheld…

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Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is an imaging modality that has been widely adopted for visualizing corneal, retinal and limbal tissue structure with micron resolution. It can be used to diagnose pathological conditions of the eye, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-08 Jiahong Ouyang , Tejas Sudharshan Mathai , Kira Lathrop , John Galeotti

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a popular modality in ophthalmology and is also used intravascularly. Our interest in this work is OCT in the context of airway abnormalities in infants and children where the high resolution of OCT and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Yining Jiao , Amy Oldenburg , Yinghan Xu , Srikamal Soundararajan , Carlton Zdanski , Julia Kimbell , Marc Niethammer

Displacement estimation in optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging is relevant for several potential applications, e.g. for optical coherence elastography (OCE) for corneal biomechanical characterization. Larger displacements may be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 Hossein Khodadadi , Orcun Goksel , Sabine Kling

Automatic quantification of perifoveal vessel densities in optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A) images face challenges such as variable intra- and inter-image signal to noise ratios, projection artefacts from outer vasculature…

Automated segmentation of vascular map in retinal images endeavors a potential benefit in diagnostic procedure of different ocular diseases. In this paper, we suggest a new unsupervised retinal blood vessel segmentation approach using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-13 Kundan Kumar , Debashisa Samal , Suraj

Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), a noninvasive cross-sectional scan of the eye with qualitative 3D visualization of the retinal anatomy is use to study the retinal structure and the presence of pathogens. The advent of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Nchongmaje Ndipenoch , Alina Miron , Zidong Wang , Yongmin Li