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Pathological-Corneas Layer Segmentation and Thickness Measurement in OCT Images
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to propose a new algorithm for the segmentation and thickness measurement of pathological corneas with irregular layers using a two-stage graph search and ray tracing. METHODS: In the first stage, a graph, with only gradient edge-cost, is used to segment the ai...
Autores principales: | , , , , |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7594599/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33173606 http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/tvst.9.11.24 |
Sumario: | PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to propose a new algorithm for the segmentation and thickness measurement of pathological corneas with irregular layers using a two-stage graph search and ray tracing. METHODS: In the first stage, a graph, with only gradient edge-cost, is used to segment the air-epithelium and endothelium-aqueous boundaries. In the second stage, a graph, with gradient, directional, and multiplier edge-cost, is used to correct segmentation. The optical coherence tomography (OCT) image is flattened using the air-epithelium boundary and a graph search is used to segment the epithelium-Bowman's and Bowman's-stroma boundaries. Then, the OCT image is flattened using the endothelium-aqueous boundary and a graph search is used to segment the Descemet's membrane. Ray tracing is used to correct the inter-boundary distances, then the thickness is measured using the shortest distance. The proposed algorithm was trained and evaluated using 190 OCT images manually segmented by trained operators. RESULTS: The mean and standard deviation of the unsigned errors of the algorithm-operator and inter-operator were 0.89 ± 1.03 and 0.77 ± 0.68 pixels in segmentation and 3.62 ± 3.98 and 2.95 ± 2.52 µm in thickness measurement. CONCLUSIONS: Our proposed algorithm can produce accurate segmentation and thickness measurements compared with the manual operators. TRANSLATIONAL RELEVANCE: Our algorithm could be potentially useful in the clinical practice. |
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