Automatic choroidal segmentation in optical coherence tomography images based on curvelet transform and graph theory

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作者
Eghtedar, Reza Alizadeh [1 ]
Esmaeili, Mahdad [1 ]
Peyman, Alireza [4 ,5 ]
Akhlaghi, Mohammadreza [4 ,5 ]
Rasta, Seyed Hossein [1 ,2 ,3 ,6 ]
机构
[1] Tabriz Univ Med Sci, Sch Adv Med Sci, Med Bioengn Dept, Tabriz, Iran
[2] Tabriz Univ Med Sci, Sch Med, Dept Med Phys, Tabriz, Iran
[3] Univ Aberdeen, Sch Med Sci, Dept Biomed Phys, Aberdeen, Scotland
[4] Isfahan Univ Med Sci, Dept Ophthalmol, Esfahan, Iran
[5] Isfahan Univ Med Sci, Isfahan Eye Res Ctr, Dept Ophthalmol, Esfahan, Iran
[6] Tabriz Univ Med Sci, Fac Adv Med Sci, Dept Med Bioengn, Tabriz 51666, Iran
来源
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SIGNALS & SENSORS | 2023年 / 13卷 / 02期
关键词
Choroidal segmentation; curvelet transform; graph theory; image processing; optical coherence tomography; THICKNESS MEASUREMENTS; OCT; DECONVOLUTION; REDUCTION; LEVEL;
D O I
10.4103/jmss.jmss_144_21
中图分类号
R318 [生物医学工程];
学科分类号
0831 ;
摘要
Background: Automatic segmentation of the choroid on optical coherence tomography (OCT) images helps ophthalmologists in diagnosing eye pathologies. Compared to manual segmentations, it is faster and is not affected by human errors. The presence of the large speckle noise in the OCT images limits the automatic segmentation and interpretation of them. To solve this problem, a new curvelet transform-based K-SVD method is proposed in this study. Furthermore, the dataset was manually segmented by a retinal ophthalmologist to draw a comparison with the proposed automatic segmentation technique. Methods: In this study, curvelet transform-based K-SVD dictionary learning and Lucy-Richardson algorithm were used to remove the speckle noise from OCT images. The Outer/Inner Choroidal Boundaries (O/ICB) were determined utilizing graph theory. The area between ICB and outer choroidal boundary was considered as the choroidal region. Results: The proposed method was evaluated on our dataset and the average dice similarity coefficient (DSC) was calculated to be 92.14% +/- 3.30% between automatic and manual segmented regions. Moreover, by applying the latest presented open-source algorithm by Mazzaferri et al. on our dataset, the mean DSC was calculated to be 55.75% +/- 14.54%. Conclusions: A significant similarity was observed between automatic and manual segmentations. Automatic segmentation of the choroidal layer could be also utilized in large-scale quantitative studies of the choroid.
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页数:9
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