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Lookup NU author(s): Professor David SteelORCiD, Professor Boguslaw ObaraORCiD
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by IEEE, 2018.
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IEEE Macular holes are blinding conditions where a hole develops in the central part of retina, resulting in reduced central vision. The prognosis and treatment options are related to a number of variables including the macular hole size and shape. High-resolution spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) allows precise imaging of the macular hole geometry in three dimensions, but the measurement of these by human observers is time consuming and prone to high inter- and intra-observer variability, being characteristically measured in 2D rather than 3D. We introduce several novel techniques to automatically retrieve accurate 3D measurements of the macular hole, including: surface area, base area, base diameter, top area, top diameter, height, and minimum diameter. Specifically, we introduce a multi-scale 3D level set segmentation approach based on a state-of-the-art level set method, and we introduce novel curvature-based cutting and 3D measurement procedures. The algorithm is fully automatic, and we validate our extracted measurements both qualitatively and quantitatively, where our results show the method to be robust across a variety of scenarios. Our automated processes are considered a significant contribution for clinical applications.
Author(s): Nasrulloh AV, Willcocks CG, Jackson PTG, Geenen C, Habib MS, Steel DHW, Obara B
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Year: 2018
Volume: 37
Issue: 2
Pages: 580-589
Print publication date: 01/02/2018
Online publication date: 30/10/2017
Acceptance date: 21/10/2017
Date deposited: 05/03/2018
ISSN (print): 0278-0062
ISSN (electronic): 1558-254X
Publisher: IEEE
URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2017.2767908
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2017.2767908
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