Correlated Analysis of Morphological Patterns Between SD-OCT and FFA Imaging for Diabetic Maculopathy Detection: Conformal Mapping-Based Approach

Autor: Chandan Chakraborty, T. R. Swapna, K. A. Narayanankutty
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the International Conference on Soft Computing Systems ISBN: 9788132226727
Popis: The aim of this work is to identify the morphological patterns associated with macular leaks for diabetic maculopathy from spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) a noninvasive technique and fundus fluorescein angiogram (FFA) an invasive technique. Here, an attempt has been made to identify the morphological pattern of SD-OCT images, which has association with FFA images affected by diabetic maculopathy based on conformal mapping. The preprocessing step consists of removing the speckle noise using different low-pass filters; we found that wavelet filters are efficient. Out of the 60 eyes, we were able to detect pathologies like micro-cysts in around 52 eyes which resulted in an accuracy of ~87 %. The results also showed that when SD-OCT image look normal, the conformal mapping showed angiogram leakages as micro-cysts. This is the first attempt toward correlating the features of two different modalities in retinal imaging from an image processing perspective.
Databáze: OpenAIRE