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The Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a powerful interferometric imaging technique widely used in medical fields such as ophthalmology, cardiology and dermatology, for which footprint and cost are becoming increasingly important. Here…

In this work, we propose an advanced AI based grading system for OCT images. The proposed system is a very deep fully convolutional attentive classification network trained with end to end advanced transfer learning with online random…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Mrinal Haloi

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has seen widespread success as an in vivo clinical diagnostic 3D imaging modality, impacting areas including ophthalmology, cardiology, and gastroenterology. Despite its many advantages, such as high…

With the introduction of spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT), much larger image datasets are routinely acquired compared to what was possible using the previous generation of time-domain OCT. Thus, the need for 3-D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-05-03 Yankui Sun , Tian Zhang

We apply three optical coherence tomography (OCT) image analysis techniques to extract morphometric information from OCT images obtained on peripheral nerves of rat. The accuracy of each technique is evaluated against histological…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-09 J. Hope , B. Brauer , S. Amirapu , A. McDaid , F. Vanholsbeeck

Optical coherence tomography (OCT), a commonly used retinal imaging modality, plays a central role in retinal disease diagnosis by providing high-resolution visualization of retinal layers. While deep learning (DL) has achieved expert-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Tienyu Chang , Tianhao Li , Ruogu Fang , Jiang Bian , Yu Huang

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) can provide high-resolution cross-sectional images for analyzing superficial plaques in coronary arteries. Commonly, plaque characterization using intra-coronary OCT images is performed manually by expert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Shenghua He , Jie Zheng , Akiko Maehara , Gary Mintz , Dalin Tang , Mark Anastasio , Hua Li

Layer segmentation is important to quantitative analysis of retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT). Recently, deep learning based methods have been developed to automate this task and yield remarkable performance. However, due to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 Hong Liu , Dong Wei , Donghuan Lu , Xiaoying Tang , Liansheng Wang , Yefeng Zheng

The technology of optical coherence tomography (OCT) to fingerprint imaging opens up a new research potential for fingerprint recognition owing to its ability to capture depth information of the skin layers. Developing robust and high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Wentian Zhang , Haozhe Liu , Feng Liu , Raghavendra Ramachandra

A new formulation of lateral imaging process of point-scanning optical coherence tomography (OCT) and a new differential contrast method designed by using this formulation are presented. The formulation is based on a mathematical sample…

We present a cascade deep neural network to segment retinal vessels in volumetric optical coherence tomography (OCT). Two types of knowledge are infused into the network for confining the searching regions. (1) Histology. The retinal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Liyang Fang , Jianlong Yang , Lei Mou , Huihong Zhang , Zhenjie Chai , Zhi Chen , Jiang Liu

This study is to demonstrate deep learning for automated artery-vein (AV) classification in optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA). The AV-Net, a fully convolutional network (FCN) based on modified U-shaped CNN architecture,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Minhaj Alam , David Le , Taeyoon Son , Jennifer I. Lim , Xincheng Yao

Purpose. Intraoperative Optical Coherence Tomography (iOCT) is an increasingly available imaging technique for ophthalmic microsurgery that provides high-resolution cross-sectional information of the surgical scene. We propose to build on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Jakob Weiss , Nicola Rieke , Mohammad Ali Nasseri , Mathias Maier , Abouzar Eslami , Nassir Navab

Robotic automation has the potential to assist human surgeons in performing suturing tasks in microsurgery, and in order to do so a robot must be able to guide a needle with sub-millimeter precision through soft tissue. This paper presents…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Yuan Tian , Mark Draelos , Gao Tang , Ruobing Qian , Anthony Kuo , Joseph Izatt , Kris Hauser

Automated and accurate segmentation of cystoid structures in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is of interest in the early detection of retinal diseases. It is, however, a challenging task. We propose a novel method for localizing cysts in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Karthik Gopinath , Jayanthi Sivaswamy

Early identification of patients at risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) is crucial for effective preventive care, reducing healthcare burden, and improving patients' quality of life. This study demonstrates the potential of retinal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Cynthia Maldonado-Garcia , Arezoo Zakeri , Alejandro F Frangi , Nishant Ravikumar

In microsurgery, lasers have emerged as precise tools for bone ablation. A challenge is automatic control of laser bone ablation with 4D optical coherence tomography (OCT). OCT as high resolution imaging modality provides volumetric images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Max-Heinrich Laves , Lüder A. Kahrs , Tobias Ortmaier

In the world of medical diagnostics, the adoption of various deep learning techniques is quite common as well as effective, and its statement is equally true when it comes to implementing it into the retina Optical Coherence Tomography…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-03 Tasnim Sakib Apon , Mohammad Mahmudul Hasan , Abrar Islam , MD. Golam Rabiul Alam

This paper proposes a high-precision semantic segmentation method based on an improved TransUNet architecture to address the challenges of complex lesion structures, blurred boundaries, and significant scale variations in skin lesion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Xin Wang , Xiaopei Zhang , Xingang Wang

Modern biomedical image analysis using deep learning often encounters the challenge of limited annotated data. To overcome this issue, deep generative models can be employed to synthesize realistic biomedical images. In this regard, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Yuli Wu , Weidong He , Dennis Eschweiler , Ningxin Dou , Zixin Fan , Shengli Mi , Peter Walter , Johannes Stegmaier