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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-3-2
pubmed:abstractText
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an imaging modality capable of acquiring cross-sectional images of tissue using back-reflected light. Conventional OCT images have a resolution of 10-15 microm, and are thus best suited for visualizing tissue layers and structures. OCT images of collagen (with and without endothelial cells) have no resolvable features and may appear to simply show an exponential decrease in intensity with depth. However, examination of these images reveals that they display a characteristic repetitive structure due to speckle. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the application of statistical and spectral texture analysis techniques for differentiating living and non-living tissue phantoms containing various sizes and distributions of scatterers based on speckle content in OCT images. Statistically significant differences between texture parameters and excellent classification rates were obtained when comparing various endothelial cell concentrations ranging from 0 cells/ml to 25 million cells/ml. Statistically significant results and excellent classification rates were also obtained using various sizes of microspheres with concentrations ranging from 0 microspheres/ml to 500 million microspheres/ml. This study has shown that texture analysis of OCT images may be capable of differentiating tissue phantoms containing various sizes and distributions of scatterers.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0031-9155
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
21
pubmed:volume
51
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1563-75
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16510963-Algorithms, pubmed-meshheading:16510963-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:16510963-Aorta, pubmed-meshheading:16510963-Artifacts, pubmed-meshheading:16510963-Cattle, pubmed-meshheading:16510963-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:16510963-Collagen, pubmed-meshheading:16510963-Endothelial Cells, pubmed-meshheading:16510963-Gelatin, pubmed-meshheading:16510963-Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, pubmed-meshheading:16510963-Light, pubmed-meshheading:16510963-Microspheres, pubmed-meshheading:16510963-Models, Statistical, pubmed-meshheading:16510963-Phantoms, Imaging, pubmed-meshheading:16510963-Scattering, Radiation, pubmed-meshheading:16510963-Surface Properties, pubmed-meshheading:16510963-Tomography, pubmed-meshheading:16510963-Tomography, Optical, pubmed-meshheading:16510963-Tomography, Optical Coherence
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Texture analysis of speckle in optical coherence tomography images of tissue phantoms.
pubmed:affiliation
Biomedical Engineering, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural