Multi-acquisition averaging OCT-A for diabetic retinopathy (Conference Presentation)

Arman Athwal; Morgan Heisler; Myeong Jin Ju; Rosanna Martens; Mahadev Bhalla; Gavin Docherty; Zaid Mammo; Yifan Jian; Mirza Faisal Beg; Eduardo V. Navajas; Marinko V. Sarunic

doi:10.1117/12.2510997

4 March 2019 Multi-acquisition averaging OCT-A for diabetic retinopathy (Conference Presentation)

Arman Athwal, Morgan Heisler, Myeong Jin Ju, Rosanna Martens, Mahadev Bhalla, Gavin Docherty, Zaid Mammo, Yifan Jian, Mirza Faisal Beg, Eduardo V. Navajas, Marinko V. Sarunic

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Proceedings Volume 10867, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XXIII; 108671C (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2510997
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2019, San Francisco, California, United States

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High quality visualization of the retinal microvasculature can improve our understanding of the onset and development of retinal vascular diseases, especially Diabetic Retinopathy (DR), which is a major cause of visual morbidity and is increasing in prevalence. Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCT-A) images are acquired over multiple seconds and are particularly susceptible to motion artifacts, which are more prevalent when imaging individuals with DR whose ability to fixate is limited due to deteriorating vision. The sequential acquisition and averaging of multiple OCT-A images can be performed for removing motion artifact and increasing the contrast of the vascular network. As motion artifacts often irreversibly corrupt OCT-A images of DR eyes, a robust registration pipeline is needed before feature preserving image averaging can be performed. In this report we present an improvement upon a novel method for the acquisition, processing, segmentation, registration, and averaging of sequentially acquired OCT-A images, to correct for motion artifacts in images of DR eyes. Image discontinuities caused by rapid micro-saccadic movements and image warping due to smoother reflex movements were corrected by strip-wise affine registration and subsequent local similarity-based non-rigid registration. Where our previous work was limited by the need for at least one image containing no motion artifact, thus reducing its clinical relevance, this novel template-less method stitches together partial images to form complete, motion-free images. These techniques significantly improve image quality, increasing the value for clinical diagnosis and increasing the range of patients for whom high quality OCT-A images can be acquired.

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Arman Athwal, Morgan Heisler, Myeong Jin Ju, Rosanna Martens, Mahadev Bhalla, Gavin Docherty, Zaid Mammo, Yifan Jian, Mirza Faisal Beg, Eduardo V. Navajas, and Marinko V. Sarunic "Multi-acquisition averaging OCT-A for diabetic retinopathy (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10867, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XXIII, 108671C (4 March 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2510997

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Image registration

Image segmentation

Image quality

Visualization

Angiography

Image processing

Optical coherence tomography

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