Correcting motion artifacts in retinal spectral domain optical coherence tomography via image registration

Susanna Ricco, Mei Chen, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Gadi Wollstein, Joel Schuman

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Abstract

Spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) is an important tool for the diagnosis of various retinal diseases. The measurements available from SD-OCT volumes can be used to detect structural changes in glaucoma patients before the resulting vision loss becomes noticeable. Eye movement during the imaging process corrupts the data, making measurements unreliable. We propose a method to correct for transverse motion artifacts in SD-OCT volumes after scan acquisition by registering the volume to an instantaneous, and therefore artifact-free, reference image. Our procedure corrects for smooth deformations resulting from ocular tremor and drift as well as the abrupt discontinuities in vessels resulting from microsaccades. We test our performance on 48 scans of healthy eyes and 116 scans of glaucomatous eyes, improving scan quality in 96% of healthy and 73% of glaucomatous eyes.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2009 - 12th International Conference, Proceedings
Pages100-107
Number of pages8
EditionPART 1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2009 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: Sep 20 2009Sep 24 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume5761 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period9/20/099/24/09

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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