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In the analysis of optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) images, the operation of segmenting specific targets is necessary. Existing methods typically train on supervised datasets with limited samples (approximately a few…

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Accurate medical image segmentation is of utmost importance for enabling automated clinical decision procedures. However, prevailing supervised deep learning approaches for medical image segmentation encounter significant challenges due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Reza Azad , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Yury Velichko , Ulas Bagci , Dorit Merhof

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…

Segmentation of retinal vessel images is critical to the diagnosis of retinopathy. Recently, convolutional neural networks have shown significant ability to extract the blood vessel structure. However, it remains challenging to refined…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Geng-Xin Xu , Chuan-Xian Ren

Automated segmentation of retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT) images has become an important recent direction in machine learning for medical applications. We hypothesize that the anatomic structure of layers and their high-frequency…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Azade Farshad , Yousef Yeganeh , Peter Gehlbach , Nassir Navab

Despite significant advances in artificial intelligence (AI) for computer vision, its application in medical imaging has been limited by the burden and limits of expert-generated labels. We used images from optical coherence tomography…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Cecilia S. Lee , Ariel J. Tyring , Yue Wu , Sa Xiao , Ariel S. Rokem , Nicolaas P. Deruyter , Qinqin Zhang , Adnan Tufail , Ruikang K. Wang , Aaron Y. Lee

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a non-invasive imaging technique widely used to study vascular structures and micro-circulation dynamics in the retina and choroid. OCTA has been widely used in clinics for diagnosing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Kejie Chen , Guanbing Gao , Xiaochun Yang , Wenbo Wang , Jing Na

The analysis of retinal images for the diagnosis of various diseases is one of the emerging areas of research. Recently, the research direction has been inclined towards investigating several changes in retinal blood vessels in subjects…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Mehwish Mehmood , Shahzaib Iqbal , Tariq Mahmood Khan , Ivor Spence , Muhammad Fahim

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Paria Jeihouni , Omid Dehzangi , Annahita Amireskandari , Ali Dabouei , Ali Rezai , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a noninvasive imaging modality which can be used to obtain depth images of the retina. The changing layer thicknesses can thus be quantified by analyzing these OCT images, moreover these changes have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Yufan He , Aaron Carass , Bruno M. Jedynak , Sharon D. Solomon , Shiv Saidha , Peter A. Calabresi , Jerry L. Prince

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…

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a commonly-used method of extracting high resolution retinal information. Moreover there is an increasing demand for the automated retinal layer segmentation which facilitates the retinal disease…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-30 Zeyu Fu , Yang Sun , Xiangyu Zhang , Scott Stainton , Shaun Barney , Jeffry Hogg , William Innes , Satnam Dlay

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…

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Due to the lack of automated methods, to diagnose cerebrovascular disease, time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography (TOF-MRA) is assessed visually, making it time-consuming. The commonly used encoder-decoder architectures for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Syed Farhan Abbas , Nguyen Thanh Duc , Yoonguu Song , Kyungwon Kim , Ekta Srivastava , Boreom Lee

Intracoronary Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) enables high-resolution visualization of coronary vessel anatomy but presents challenges due to noise, imaging artifacts, and complex tissue structures. This paper proposes a fully automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Amal Lahchim , Lambros Athanasiou

Diagnosing different retinal diseases from Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT) images is a challenging task. Different automated approaches such as image processing, machine learning and deep learning algorithms have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Sharif Amit Kamran , Sourajit Saha , Ali Shihab Sabbir , Alireza Tavakkoli

Retinal image segmentation plays an important role in automatic disease diagnosis. This task is very challenging because the complex structure and texture information are mixed in a retinal image, and distinguishing the information is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Shihao Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Yanwu Xu , Yanxia Liu , Mingkui Tan

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) offer a promising path toward interpretable medical diagnosis by allowing users to ask about clinical explanations alongside predictions and across different modalities. However, training VLMs for detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Chenjun Li , Cheng Wan , Laurin Lux , Alexander Berger , Richard B. Rosen , Martin J. Menten , Johannes C. Paetzold

Purpose: This study explores the feasibility of using generative machine learning (ML) to translate Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images into Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCTA) images, potentially bypassing the need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Rashadul Hasan Badhon , Atalie Carina Thompson , Jennifer I. Lim , Theodore Leng , Minhaj Nur Alam

The morphology and hierarchy of the vascular systems are essential for perfusion in supporting metabolism. In human retina, one of the most energy-demanding organs, retinal circulation nourishes the entire inner retina by an intricate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-16 Siyi Chen , Amir H. Kashani , Ji Yi