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ArticleFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2022

Choroidal layer segmentation in OCT images by a boundary enhancement network.

Wenjun Wu, Yan Gong, Huaying Hao, Jiong Zhang, Pan Su, Qifeng Yan, Yuhui Ma, Yitian Zhao

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Article in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Wenjun WuNingbo Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, China.
Yan GongThe Affiliated Ningbo Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Ningbo, China.
Huaying HaoNingbo Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, China.
Jiong ZhangNingbo Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, China.
Pan SuSchool of Control and Computer Engineering North China Electric Power University, Baoding, China.
Qifeng YanNingbo Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, China.
Yuhui MaNingbo Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, China.
Yitian ZhaoNingbo Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, China.
Ningbo Institute of Industrial Technology · CNChinese Academy of Sciences · CNNorth China Electric Power University · CNWenzhou Medical University · CN

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Abstract

Morphological changes of the choroid have been proved to be associated with the occurrence and pathological mechanism of many ophthalmic diseases. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive technique for imaging of ocular biological tissues, that can reveal the structure of the retinal and choroidal layers in micron-scale resolution. However, unlike the retinal layer, the interface between the choroidal layer and the sclera is ambiguous in OCT, which makes it difficult for ophthalmologists to identify with certainty. In this paper, we propose a novel boundary-enhanced encoder-decoder architecture for choroid segmentation in retinal OCT images, in which a Boundary Enhancement Module (BEM) forms the backbone of each encoder-decoder layer. The BEM consists of three parallel branches: 1) a Feature Extraction Branch (FEB) to obtain feature maps with different receptive fields; 2) a Channel Enhancement Branch (CEB) to extract the boundary information of different channels; and 3) a Boundary Activation Branch (BAB) to enhance the boundary information

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boundary segmentationchoroidal layerdeep learninghigh myopiaoptical coherence tomography

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