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Segmentation of blood vessels in murine cerebral 3D OCTA images is foundational for in vivo quantitative analysis of the effects of neurovascular disorders, such as stroke or Alzheimer's, on the vascular network. However, to accurately…

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At the present time Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is among the most commonly used non-invasive imaging methods for the acquisition of large volumetric scans of human retinal tissues and vasculature. To resolve decisive information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 D. Sitenko , B. Boll , C. Schnörr

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCTA) are key diagnostic tools for clinical evaluation and management of retinal diseases. Compared to traditional OCT, OCTA provides richer microvascular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Renzhi Tian , Jinjie Wang , Wei Yang , Weizhen Li , Haoran Chen , Yiran Zhu , Chengchang Pan , Honggang Qi

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive imaging technique with extensive clinical applications in ophthalmology. OCT enables the visualization of the retinal layers, playing a vital role in the early detection and monitoring of…

Recent studies suggest that early stages of diabetic retinopathy (DR) can be diagnosed by monitoring vascular changes in the deep vascular complex. In this work, we investigate a novel method for automated DR grading based on optical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-22 Linus Kreitner , Ivan Ezhov , Daniel Rueckert , Johannes C. Paetzold , Martin J. Menten

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Chengliang Wang , Xinrun Chen , Haojian Ning , Shiying Li

Automated detection of retinal structures, such as retinal vessels (RV), the foveal avascular zone (FAZ), and retinal vascular junctions (RVJ), are of great importance for understanding diseases of the eye and clinical decision-making. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-24 Jinkui Hao , Ting Shen , Xueli Zhu , Yonghuai Liu , Ardhendu Behera , Dan Zhang , Bang Chen , Jiang Liu , Jiong Zhang , Yitian Zhao

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

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a novel non-invasive imaging technique that allows visualizations of vasculature and foveal avascular zone (FAZ) across retinal layers. Clinical researches suggest that the morphology and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-14 Li Lin , Zhonghua Wang , Jiewei Wu , Yijin Huang , Junyan Lyu , Pujin Cheng , Jiong Wu , Xiaoying Tang

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) can visualize vasculature structures, but provides limited information about the blood flow speeds. Here, we present a second generation variable interscan time analysis (VISTA) OCTA, which…

Existing methods to reconstruct vascular structures from a computed tomography (CT) angiogram rely on injection of intravenous contrast to enhance the radio-density within the vessel lumen. However, pathological changes can be present in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Anirudh Chandrashekar , Ashok Handa , Natesh Shivakumar , Pierfrancesco Lapolla , Vicente Grau , Regent Lee

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) angiography is a well-established in vivo imaging technique to assess the overall vascular morphology of tissues and is an emerging field of research for the assessment of blood flow dynamics and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 Cerine Lal , Hrebesh M Subhash , Sergey Alexandrov , Martin J Leahy

Objective: The advent of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) with large electronic imaging databases along with advances in deep neural networks with machine learning has provided a unique opportunity to achieve milestones in automated image…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-16 Cecilia S. Lee , Doug M. Baughman , Aaron Y. Lee

Purpose: Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCT-A) permits visualization of the changes to the retinal circulation due to diabetic retinopathy (DR), a microvascular complication of diabetes. We demonstrate accurate segmentation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-13 Julian Lo , Morgan Heisler , Vinicius Vanzan , Sonja Karst , Ivana Zadro Matovinovic , Sven Loncaric , Eduardo V. Navajas , Mirza Faisal Beg , Marinko V. Sarunic

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is an emerging medical imaging modality for luminal organ diagnosis. The non-constant rotation speed of optical components in the OCT catheter tip causes rotational distortion in OCT volumetric scanning.…

Artificial intelligence (AI) classification holds promise as a novel and affordable screening tool for clinical management of ocular diseases. Rural and underserved areas, which suffer from lack of access to experienced ophthalmologists may…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-19 Minhaj Alam , David Le , Jennifer I. Lim , R. V. P. Chan , Xincheng Yao

Eye movements, blinking and other motion during the acquisition of optical coherence tomography (OCT) can lead to artifacts, when processed to OCT angiography (OCTA) images. Affected scans emerge as high intensity (white) or missing (black)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-09 Julian Hossbach , Lennart Husvogt , Martin F. Kraus , James G. Fujimoto , Andreas K. Maier

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a volumetric imaging modality that empowers clinicians and scientists to noninvasively visualize the cross-sections of biological samples. As the latest generation of its kind, Fourier-domain OCT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-20 Yuye Ling , Mengyuan Wang , Yu Gan , Xinwen Yao , Leopold Schmetterer , Chuanqing Zhou , Yikai Su

The segmentation and analysis of coronary arteries from intravascular optical coherence tomography (IVOCT) is an important aspect of diagnosing and managing coronary artery disease. Current image processing methods are hindered by the time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Arjun Balaji , Lachlan Kelsey , Kamran Majeed , Carl Schultz , Barry Doyle