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Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Iman Tavakkolnia , Majid Safari

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is an emerging technique in the field of biomedical imaging, with applications in ophthalmology, dermatology, coronary imaging etc. OCT images usually suffer from a granular pattern, called speckle noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Ahmadreza Baghaie , Roshan M. D'souza , Zeyun Yu

Fourier-based optical computing operations, such as spatial differentiation, have recently been realized in compact form factors using flat optics. Experimental demonstrations, however, have been limited to coherent light requiring laser…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-07 Xiaomeng Zhang , Benfeng Bai , Hong-Bo Sun , Guofan Jin , Jason Valentine

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a widely used imaging technique in the micrometer regime, which gained accelerating interest in medical imaging in the last twenty years. In up-to-date OCT literature [5,6] certain simplifying…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Leopold Veselka , Lisa Krainz , Leonidas Mindrinos , Wolfgang Drexler , Peter Elbau

3D imaging modalities are becoming increasingly popular and relevant in retinal imaging owing to their effectiveness in highlighting structures in sub-retinal layers. OCT is one such modality which has great importance in the context of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Karthik Gopinath , Jayanthi Sivaswamy

Background: Dual-energy CT (DECT) and material decomposition play vital roles in quantitative medical imaging. However, the decomposition process may suffer from significant noise amplification, leading to severely degraded image…

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

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is commonly used to analyze retinal layers for assessment of ocular diseases. In this paper, we propose a method for retinal layer segmentation and quantification of uncertainty based on Bayesian deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Suman Sedai , Bhavna Antony , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Rahil Garnavi

Non-destructive testing (NDT) is essential in ceramic manufacturing to ensure the quality of components without compromising their integrity. In this context, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) enables high-resolution internal imaging,…

A low-complexity model for signal quality prediction in a nonlinear fiber-optical network is developed. The model, which builds on the Gaussian noise model, takes into account the signal degradation caused by a combination of chromatic…

Optics · Physics 2015-01-07 Pontus Johannisson , Erik Agrell

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive, micrometer-scale imaging modality that has become a clinical standard in ophthalmology. By raster-scanning the retina, sequential cross-sectional image slices are acquired to generate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-20 Stefan Ploner , Jungeun Won , Julia Schottenhamml , Jessica Girgis , Kenneth Lam , Nadia Waheed , James Fujimoto , Andreas Maier

Purpose: To develop a deep learning approach to digitally-stain optical coherence tomography (OCT) images of the optic nerve head (ONH). Methods: A horizontal B-scan was acquired through the center of the ONH using OCT (Spectralis) for 1…

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

We demonstrate in a {\it proof-of-concept} experiment spectral-domain optical coherence tomography where steering of the optical beam that probes the sample in a transverse scan does not make use of any mechanical element. Steering is done…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-15 Daniel F. Urrego , Gerard J. Machado , Juan P. Torres

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

Reducing the bit-depth is an effective approach to lower the cost of optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems and increase the transmission efficiency in data acquisition and telemedicine. However, a low bit-depth will lead to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Qiangjiang Hao , Kang Zhou , Jianlong Yang , Liyang Fang , Zhengjie Chai , Yuhui Ma , Yan Hu , Shenghua Gao , Jiang Liu

We introduce an ordinate method for noisy data analysis, based solely on rank information and thus insensitive to outliers. The method is nonparametric, objective, and the required data processing is parsimonious. Main ingredients are a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-09-11 Glenn Ierley , Alex Kostinski

Our objective is to evaluate the efficacy of methods that use deep learning (DL) for the automatic fine-grained segmentation of optical coherence tomography (OCT) images of the retina. OCT images from 10 patients with mild non-proliferative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Mike Pekala , Neil Joshi , David E. Freund , Neil M. Bressler , Delia Cabrera DeBuc , Philippe M Burlina

Based on high-throughput dark-field full-field optical coherence tomography, we designed and built an OCT system that can measure a variety of samples with different scattered light intensities, such as materials with multi-layer…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-30 Youlong Fan , Qingye Hu , Zhongping Wang , Xiantao Wei , Zengming Zhang

Non-contact measurement of the refractive index and thickness of multilayer biological tissues is of great significance for biomedical applications and can greatly improve medical diagnosis and treatment. In this work, we introduce a…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-19 Yu-Lin Ku , Yao-Gen Shu