Registration of 3D spectral OCT volumes combining ICP with a graph-based approach

Meindert Niemeijer; Kyungmoo Lee; Mona K. Garvin; Michael D. Abràmoff; Milan Sonka

doi:10.1117/12.911104

14 February 2012 Registration of 3D spectral OCT volumes combining ICP with a graph-based approach

Meindert Niemeijer, Kyungmoo Lee, Mona K. Garvin, Michael D. Abràmoff, Milan Sonka

Proceedings Volume 8314, Medical Imaging 2012: Image Processing; 83141A (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.911104
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2012, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The introduction of spectral Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) scanners has enabled acquisition of high resolution, 3D cross-sectional volumetric images of the retina. 3D-OCT is used to detect and manage eye diseases such as glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration. To follow-up patients over time, image registration is a vital tool to enable more precise, quantitative comparison of disease states. In this work we present a 3D registrationmethod based on a two-step approach. In the first step we register both scans in the XY domain using an Iterative Closest Point (ICP) based algorithm. This algorithm is applied to vessel segmentations obtained from the projection image of each scan. The distance minimized in the ICP algorithm includes measurements of the vessel orientation and vessel width to allow for a more robust match. In the second step, a graph-based method is applied to find the optimal translation along the depth axis of the individual A-scans in the volume to match both scans. The cost image used to construct the graph is based on the mean squared error (MSE) between matching A-scans in both images at different translations. We have applied this method to the registration of Optic Nerve Head (ONH) centered 3D-OCT scans of the same patient. First, 10 3D-OCT scans of 5 eyes with glaucoma imaged in vivo were registered for a qualitative evaluation of the algorithm performance. Then, 17 OCT data set pairs of 17 eyes with known deformation were used for quantitative assessment of the method's robustness.

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Meindert Niemeijer, Kyungmoo Lee, Mona K. Garvin, Michael D. Abràmoff, and Milan Sonka "Registration of 3D spectral OCT volumes combining ICP with a graph-based approach", Proc. SPIE 8314, Medical Imaging 2012: Image Processing, 83141A (14 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.911104

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