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A common approach to medical image analysis on volumetric data uses deep 2D convolutional neural networks (CNNs). This is largely attributed to the challenges imposed by the nature of the 3D data: variable volume size, GPU exhaustion during…

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Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) has been established as a powerful tool for investigating vascular diseases and is expected to become a standard of care technology. However, its widespread clinical usage is hindered by…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-09-10 Si Chen , Kan Lin , Linbo Liu

Many eye diseases like Diabetic Macular Edema (DME), Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD), and Glaucoma manifest in the retina, can cause irreversible blindness or severely impair the central version. The Optical Coherence Tomography…

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Intravascular polarimetry with catheter-based polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) complements the high-resolution structural tomograms of OCT with morphological contrast available through polarimetry. Its clinical…

Optical coherence tomography is state-of-the-art in non-invasive imaging of biological structures. Spectral Domain Optical Co-herence Tomography is the popularly used variation of this technique, but its performance is limited by the…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-01 Prabhav Gaur , Andrew Grieco , Yeshaiahu Fainman

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a prevalent, interferometric, high-resolution imaging method with broad biomedical applications. Nonetheless, OCT images suffer from an artifact, called speckle which degrades the image quality. Digital…

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a novel imaging modality that has been widely utilized in ophthalmology and neuroscience studies to observe retinal vessels and microvascular systems. However, publicly available OCTA…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-27 Mingchao Li , Kun Huang , Qiuzhuo Xu , Jiadong Yang , Yuhan Zhang , Zexuan Ji , Keren Xie , Songtao Yuan , Qinghuai Liu , Qiang Chen

Radiation therapy (RT) is widely employed in the clinic for the treatment of head and neck (HaN) cancers. An essential step of RT planning is the accurate segmentation of various organs-at-risks (OARs) in HaN CT images. Nevertheless,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Zijie Chen , Cheng Li , Junjun He , Jin Ye , Diping Song , Shanshan Wang , Lixu Gu , Yu Qiao

In OCT angiography (OCTA), decorrelation computation has been widely used as a local motion index to identify dynamic flow from static tissues, but its dependence on SNR severely degrades the vascular visibility, particularly in low- SNR…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-04-16 Luzhe Huang , Yiming Fu , Ruixiang Chen , Shanshan Yang , Haixia Qiu , Xining Wu , Shiyong Zhao , Ying Gu , Peng Li

Spatial resolution in optical microscopy has traditionally been treated as a fixed parameter of the optical system. Here, we present an approach to enhance transverse resolution in beam-scanned optical coherence tomography (OCT) beyond its…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-22 Nichaluk Leartprapun , Steven G. Adie

In this paper, the problem of image super-resolution for Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) has been addressed. Due to the motion artifacts, OCT imaging is usually done with a low sampling rate and the resulting images are often noisy and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Farnaz Sedighin , Andrzej Cichocki , Hossein Rabbani

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…

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Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a novel non-invasive imaging modality that allows micron-level resolution to visualize the retinal microvasculature. The retinal vessel segmentation in OCTA images is still an open problem,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Mingchao Li , Yerui Chen , Weiwei Zhang , Qiang Chen

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been recently employed to solve problems from both the computer vision and medical image analysis fields. Despite their popularity, most approaches are only able to process 2D images while most…

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The choroid, a highly vascular layer behind the retina, is an extension of the central nervous system and has parallels with the renal cortex, with blood flow far exceeding that of the brain and kidney. Thus, there has been growing interest…

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We propose a non-convex variational model for the super-resolution of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images of the murine eye, by enforcing sparsity with respect to suitable dictionaries learnt from high-resolution OCT data. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Gabriele Scrivanti , Luca Calatroni , Serena Morigi , Lindsay Nicholson , Alin Achim

Optoacoustic tomography (OAT), also known as photoacoustic tomography, is a rapidly emerging hybrid imaging technique that possesses great potential for a wide range of biomedical imaging applications. In OAT, a laser is employed to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Yang Lou , Kun Wang , Alexander. A. Oraevsky , Mark. A. Anastasio

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging is a well-known technology for visualizing retinal layers and helps ophthalmologists to detect possible diseases. Accurate and early diagnosis of common retinal diseases can prevent the patients…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-04 Mohammad Rahimzadeh , Mahmoud Reza Mohammadi

Dispersion is a common phenomenon in optics due to the frequency dependence of the refractive index in polychromatic light. This issue, if left untreated in optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging, leads to signal broadening of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Shangbang Luo , Guy Holland , Eric Mikula , Samantha Bradford , Reza Khazaeinezhad , James V Jester , Tibor Juhasz

Visible light optical coherence tomography (vis-OCT) provides a unique tool for imaging the structure and oxygen metabolism in tissues. However, since it works in the spectral domain, vis-OCT still suffers from noises due to the multiple…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Danlei Qiao , Peng Miao , Ian Rubinoff , Jibo Zhou , John B. Troy , Hao F. Zhang , Shanbao Tong