Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, Volume. 7, Issue 1, 1350052(2014)

AUTOMATED ASSESSMENT OF EPIDERMAL THICKNESS AND VASCULAR DENSITY OF PORT WINE STAINS OCT IMAGE

CHENGMING WANG1, TIANCHENG HUO1, JING-GAO ZHENG1, NING ZHANG1, TIANYUAN CHEN1, WENCHAO LIAO1, YING WANG2, YING GU2, and PING XUE1、*
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  • 1Department of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Low-dimensional Quantum Physics Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China
  • 2Department of Laser Medicine Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, P. R. China
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    Optical coherence tomography (OCT) enables in vivo imaging of port wine stains (PWS) lesions. The knowledge of vascular structure and epidermal thickness (ET) of PWS may aid the objective diagnosis and optimal treatment. To obtain the structural parameters more rapidly and avoid user intervention, an automated algorithm of energy map is introduced based on intensity and edge information to extract the skin surface using dynamic programming method. Subsequently, an averaged A-scan analysis is performed to obtain the mean ET and the relative intensity of dermis indicating the corresponding vascular density. This approach is currently successfully applied in clinical diagnosis and shows promising guidance and assessment of PDT treatment.

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    CHENGMING WANG, TIANCHENG HUO, JING-GAO ZHENG, NING ZHANG, TIANYUAN CHEN, WENCHAO LIAO, YING WANG, YING GU, PING XUE. AUTOMATED ASSESSMENT OF EPIDERMAL THICKNESS AND VASCULAR DENSITY OF PORT WINE STAINS OCT IMAGE[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2014, 7(1): 1350052

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    Paper Information

    Received: Jun. 1, 2013

    Accepted: Sep. 12, 2013

    Published Online: Jan. 10, 2019

    The Author Email: XUE PING (xuep@tsinghua.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1142/s1793545813500521

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