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ArticleBiomedical optics express2020

Lymphatic vessel segmentation in optical coherence tomography by adding U-Net-based CNN for artifact minimization.

Pei-Yu Lai, Chung-Hsing Chang, Hong-Ren Su, Wen-Chuan Kuo

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Article in Biomedical optics express, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pei-Yu LaiDepartment of Biophotonics, National Yang-Ming University, 155, Sec-2, Li-Nong Street, Taipei 112, Taiwan.
Chung-Hsing ChangSkin Institute, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan.
Hong-Ren SuSuper Genius AItek Co., Ltd, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Wen-Chuan KuoDepartment of Biophotonics, National Yang-Ming University, 155, Sec-2, Li-Nong Street, Taipei 112, Taiwan.
Hualien Tzu Chi Medical Center · TW

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The lymphatic system branches throughout the body to transport bodily fluid and plays a key immune-response role. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an emerging technique for the noninvasive and label-free imaging of lymphatic capillaries utilizing low scattering features of the lymph fluid. Here, the proposed lymphatic segmentation method combines U-Net-based CNN, a Hessian vesselness filter, and a modified intensity-thresholding to search the nearby pixels based on the binarized Hessian mask. Compared to previous approaches, the method can extract shapes more precisely, and the segmented result contains minimal artifacts, achieves the dice coefficient of 0.83, precision of 0.859, and recall of 0.803.

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