Blood vessel segmentation with three-dimensional spectral domain optical coherence tomography

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PATENT NO 8831304
APP PUB NO 20120213423A1
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13321301

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In the context of the early detection and monitoring of eye diseases, such as glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy, the use of optical coherence tomography presents the difficulty, with respect to blood vessel segmentation, of weak visibility of vessel pattern in the OCT fundus image. To address this problem, a boosting learning approach uses three-dimensional (3D) information to effect automated segmentation of retinal blood vessels. The automated blood vessel segmentation technique described herein is based on 3D spectral domain OCT and provides accurate vessel pattern for clinical analysis, for retinal image registration, and for early diagnosis and monitoring of the progression of glaucoma and other retinal diseases. The technique employs a machine learning algorithm to identify blood vessel automatically in 3D OCT image, in a manner that does not rely on retinal layer segmentation.

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  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY;UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION

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Ishikawa, Hiroshi Pittsburgh, US 338 5057
Schuman, Joel S Pittsburgh, US 24 1257
Tolliver, David Pittsburgh, US 1 36
Wollstein, Chaim Gad Pittsburgh, US 1 36
Xu, Juan Monroeville, US 48 373

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