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INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE
卷 56, 期 6, 页码 3810-3819出版社
ASSOC RESEARCH VISION OPHTHALMOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.15-16502
关键词
OCT; Image processing; retinal nerve fiber layer; histogram matching
资金
- National Institutes of Health (NIH
- Bethesda MD, USA) [NIH R01-EY013178, P30-EY008098]
- Eye and Ear Foundation (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
- Research to Prevent Blindness (New York, NY, USA)
PURPOSE. We minimized the influence of image quality variability, as measured by signal strength (SS), on optical coherence tomography (OCT) thickness measurements using the histogram matching (HM) method. METHODS. We scanned 12 eyes from 12 healthy subjects with the Cirrus HD-OCT device to obtain a series of OCT images with a wide range of SS (maximal range, 1-10) at the same visit. For each eye, the histogram of an image with the highest SS (best image quality) was set as the reference. We applied HM to the images with lower SS by shaping the input histogram into the reference histogram. Retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness was automatically measured before and after HM processing (defined as original and HM measurements), and compared to the device output (device measurements). Nonlinear mixed effects models were used to analyze the relationship between RNFL thickness and SS. In addition, the lowest tolerable SSs, which gave the RNFL thickness within the variability margin of manufacturer recommended SS range (6-10), were determined for device, original, and HM measurements. RESULTS. The HM measurements showed less variability across a wide range of image quality than the original and device measurements (slope = 1.17 vs. 4.89 and 1.72 mu m/SS, respectively). The lowest tolerable SS was successfully reduced to 4.5 after HM processing. CONCLUSIONS. The HM method successfully extended the acceptable SS range on OCT images. This would qualify more OCT images with low SS for clinical assessment, broadening the OCT application to a wider range of subjects.
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