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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,…

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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

Computer-assisted automatic analysis of diabetic retinopathy (DR) is of great importance in reducing the risks of vision loss and even blindness. Ultra-wide optical coherence tomography angiography (UW-OCTA) is a non-invasive and safe…

In this paper, we propose a framework that incorporates experts diagnostics and insights into the analysis of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) using multi-modal learning. To demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach, we create a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-22 Y. Logan , K. Kokilepersaud , G. Kwon , G. AlRegib , C. Wykoff , H. Yu

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of vision loss worldwide, and early diagnosis through automated retinal image analysis can significantly reduce the risk of blindness. This paper presents a robust deep learning framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Faisal Ahmed

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR), an ocular complication of diabetes, is a leading cause of blindness worldwide. Traditionally, DR is monitored using Color Fundus Photography (CFP), a widespread 2-D imaging modality. However, DR classifications…

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is being increasingly adopted as a label-free and non-invasive technique for biomedical applications such as cancer and ocular disease diagnosis. Diagnostic information for these tissues is manifest in…

Purpose: To assess whether a generative adversarial network (GAN) could synthesize realistic optical coherence tomography (OCT) images that satisfactorily serve as the educational images for retinal specialists and the training datasets for…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Ce Zheng , Xiaolin Xie , Kang Zhou , Bang Chen , Jili Chen , Haiyun Ye , Wen Li , Tong Qiao , Shenghua Gao , Jianlong Yang , Jiang Liu

Strong speckle noise is inherent to optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging and represents a significant obstacle for accurate quantitative analysis of retinal structures which is key for advances in clinical diagnosis and monitoring of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Shijie Li , Palaiologos Alexopoulos , Anse Vellappally , Ronald Zambrano , Wollstein Gadi , Guido Gerig

In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has proven its relevance for medical decision support. However, the "black-box" nature of successful AI algorithms still holds back their wide-spread deployment. In this paper, we describe an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Gwenolé Quellec , Hassan Al Hajj , Mathieu Lamard , Pierre-Henri Conze , Pascale Massin , Béatrice Cochener

In this paper, we propose a novel retinal layer boundary model for segmentation of optical coherence tomography (OCT) images. The retinal layer boundary model consists of 9 open parametric contours representing the 9 retinal layers in OCT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Jinming Duan , Weicheng Xie , Ryan Wen Liu , Christopher Tench , Irene Gottlob , Frank Proudlock , Li Bai

As Vision-Language Models (VLMs) become increasingly sophisticated and widely used, it becomes more and more crucial to understand their decision-making process. Traditional explainability methods, designed for classification tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Walid Bousselham , Angie Boggust , Hendrik Strobelt , Hilde Kuehne

The evaluation and monitoring of cells health in the human retina is crucial and follow time course of retinal diseases, detect lesions before irreversible visual loss and to evaluate treatment effects. Towards this goal, a major challenge…

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of death globally. Non-invasive, cost-effective imaging techniques play a crucial role in early detection and prevention of CVD. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has gained recognition…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Cynthia Maldonado-Garcia , Rodrigo Bonazzola , Enzo Ferrante , Thomas H Julian , Panagiotis I Sergouniotis , Nishant Ravikumara , Alejandro F Frangi

Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide and Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is the quintessential imaging technique for its detection. Unlike most of the state-of-the-art studies focused on glaucoma detection, in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-28 Gabriel García , Rocío del Amor , Adrián Colomer , Rafael Verdú-Monedero , Juan Morales-Sánchez , Valery Naranjo

Multiple-surface segmentation in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images is a challenge problem, further complicated by the frequent presence of weak image boundaries. Recently, many deep learning (DL) based methods have been developed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-13 Hui Xie , Weiyu Xu , Xiaodong Wu

In this project, we developed a deep learning system applied to human retina images for medical diagnostic decision support. The retina images were provided by EyePACS. These images were used in the framework of a Kaggle contest, whose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Maria Camila Alvarez Trivino , Jeremie Despraz , Jesus Alfonso Lopez Sotelo , Carlos Andres Pena

An accurate and automated tissue segmentation algorithm for retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT) images is crucial for the diagnosis of glaucoma. However, due to the presence of the optic disc, the anatomical structure of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-10 Jiaxuan Li , Peiyao Jin , Jianfeng Zhu , Haidong Zou , Xun Xu , Min Tang , Minwen Zhou , Yu Gan , Jiangnan He , Yuye Ling , Yikai Su

Worldwide, sight loss is commonly occurred by retinal diseases, with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) being a notable facet that affects elderly patients. Approaching 170 million persons wide-ranging have been spotted with AMD, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Khaled Al-Saih , Fares Al-Shargie , Mohammed Isam Al-hiyali , Reham Alhejaili

In optical coherence tomography (OCT) volumes of retina, the sequential acquisition of the individual slices makes this modality prone to motion artifacts, misalignments between adjacent slices being the most noticeable. Any distortion in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Yasmeen M. George , Suman Sedai , Bhavna J. Antony , Hiroshi Ishikawa , Gadi Wollstein , Joel S. Schuman , Rahil Garnavi