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Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) System with Optical Coherent Tomography for Melanin Morphology Quantification in Melasma Patients
Dark skin-type individuals have a greater tendency to have pigmentary disorders, among which melasma is especially refractory to treat and often recurs. Objective measurement of melanin amount helps evaluate the treatment response of pigmentary disorders. However, naked-eye evaluation is subjective...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8391880/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34441432 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11081498 |
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author | Chen, I-Ling Wang, Yen-Jen Chang, Chang-Cheng Wu, Yu-Hung Lu, Chih-Wei Shen, Jia-Wei Huang, Ling Lin, Bor-Shyh Chiang, Hsiu-Mei |
author_facet | Chen, I-Ling Wang, Yen-Jen Chang, Chang-Cheng Wu, Yu-Hung Lu, Chih-Wei Shen, Jia-Wei Huang, Ling Lin, Bor-Shyh Chiang, Hsiu-Mei |
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description | Dark skin-type individuals have a greater tendency to have pigmentary disorders, among which melasma is especially refractory to treat and often recurs. Objective measurement of melanin amount helps evaluate the treatment response of pigmentary disorders. However, naked-eye evaluation is subjective to weariness and bias. We used a cellular resolution full-field optical coherence tomography (FF-OCT) to assess melanin features of melasma lesions and perilesional skin on the cheeks of eight Asian patients. A computer-aided detection (CADe) system is proposed to mark and quantify melanin. This system combines spatial compounding-based denoising convolutional neural networks (SC-DnCNN), and through image processing techniques, various types of melanin features, including area, distribution, intensity, and shape, can be extracted. Through evaluations of the image differences between the lesion and perilesional skin, a distribution-based feature of confetti melanin without layering, two distribution-based features of confetti melanin in stratum spinosum, and a distribution-based feature of grain melanin at the dermal–epidermal junction, statistically significant findings were achieved (p-values = 0.0402, 0.0032, 0.0312, and 0.0426, respectively). FF-OCT enables the real-time observation of melanin features, and the CADe system with SC-DnCNN was a precise and objective tool with which to interpret the area, distribution, intensity, and shape of melanin on FF-OCT images. |
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spelling | pubmed-83918802021-08-28 Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) System with Optical Coherent Tomography for Melanin Morphology Quantification in Melasma Patients Chen, I-Ling Wang, Yen-Jen Chang, Chang-Cheng Wu, Yu-Hung Lu, Chih-Wei Shen, Jia-Wei Huang, Ling Lin, Bor-Shyh Chiang, Hsiu-Mei Diagnostics (Basel) Article Dark skin-type individuals have a greater tendency to have pigmentary disorders, among which melasma is especially refractory to treat and often recurs. Objective measurement of melanin amount helps evaluate the treatment response of pigmentary disorders. However, naked-eye evaluation is subjective to weariness and bias. We used a cellular resolution full-field optical coherence tomography (FF-OCT) to assess melanin features of melasma lesions and perilesional skin on the cheeks of eight Asian patients. A computer-aided detection (CADe) system is proposed to mark and quantify melanin. This system combines spatial compounding-based denoising convolutional neural networks (SC-DnCNN), and through image processing techniques, various types of melanin features, including area, distribution, intensity, and shape, can be extracted. Through evaluations of the image differences between the lesion and perilesional skin, a distribution-based feature of confetti melanin without layering, two distribution-based features of confetti melanin in stratum spinosum, and a distribution-based feature of grain melanin at the dermal–epidermal junction, statistically significant findings were achieved (p-values = 0.0402, 0.0032, 0.0312, and 0.0426, respectively). FF-OCT enables the real-time observation of melanin features, and the CADe system with SC-DnCNN was a precise and objective tool with which to interpret the area, distribution, intensity, and shape of melanin on FF-OCT images. MDPI 2021-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8391880/ /pubmed/34441432 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11081498 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Chen, I-Ling Wang, Yen-Jen Chang, Chang-Cheng Wu, Yu-Hung Lu, Chih-Wei Shen, Jia-Wei Huang, Ling Lin, Bor-Shyh Chiang, Hsiu-Mei Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) System with Optical Coherent Tomography for Melanin Morphology Quantification in Melasma Patients |
title | Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) System with Optical Coherent Tomography for Melanin Morphology Quantification in Melasma Patients |
title_full | Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) System with Optical Coherent Tomography for Melanin Morphology Quantification in Melasma Patients |
title_fullStr | Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) System with Optical Coherent Tomography for Melanin Morphology Quantification in Melasma Patients |
title_full_unstemmed | Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) System with Optical Coherent Tomography for Melanin Morphology Quantification in Melasma Patients |
title_short | Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) System with Optical Coherent Tomography for Melanin Morphology Quantification in Melasma Patients |
title_sort | computer-aided detection (cade) system with optical coherent tomography for melanin morphology quantification in melasma patients |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8391880/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34441432 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11081498 |
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