Distinctive Phase Interdependency Model for Retinal Vasculature Delineation in OCT-Angiography Images

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Challoob, Mohsin
Gao, Yongsheng
Busch, Andrew
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2023
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Automatic detection of retinal vasculature in optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) images faces several challenges such as the closely located capillaries, vessel discontinuity and high noise level. This paper introduces a new distinctive phase interdependency model to address these problems for delineating centerline patterns of the vascular network. We capture the inherent property of vascular centerlines by obtaining the inter-scale dependency information that exists between neighboring symmetrical wavelets in complex Poisson domain. In particular, the proposed phase interdependency model identifies vascular centerlines as the distinctive features that have high magnitudes over adjacent symmetrical coefficients whereas the coefficients caused by background noises are decayed rapidly along adjacent wavelet scales. The potential relationships between the neighboring Poisson coefficients are established based on the coherency of distinctive symmetrical wavelets. The proposed phase model is assessed on the OCTA-500 database (300 OCTA images + 200 OCT images), ROSE-1-SVC dataset (9 OCTA images), ROSE-1 (SVC+ DVC) dataset (9 OCTA images), and ROSE-2 dataset (22 OCTA images). The experiments on the clinically relevant OCTA images validate the effectiveness of the proposed method in achieving high-quality results. Our method produces average FScore of 0.822, 0.782, and 0.779 on ROSE-1-SVC, ROSE-1 (SVC+ DVC), and ROSE-2 datasets, respectively, and the FScore of 0.910 and 0.862 on OCTA_6mm and OCT_3mm datasets (OCTA-500 database), respectively, demonstrating its superior performance over the state-of-the-art benchmark methods.

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IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

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Biomedical engineering

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Challoob, M; Gao, Y; Busch, A, Distinctive Phase Interdependency Model for Retinal Vasculature Delineation in OCT-Angiography Images, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2023

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