Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, Volume. 14, Issue 1, 2140001(2021)

Identification of oral squamous cell carcinoma in optical coherence tomography images based on texture features

Zihan Yang1, Jianwei Shang2, Chenlu Liu3, Jun Zhang4, and Yanmei Liang1、*
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  • 1Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University Tianjin Key Laboratory of Micro-Scale Optical Information Science and Technology Tianjin 300350, P. R. China
  • 2Department of Oral Pathology Tianjin Stomatological Hospital Hospital of Stomatology, Nankai University Tianjin 300041, P. R. China
  • 3Department of Oral Medicine Tianjin Stomatological Hospital Hospital of Stomatology, Nankai University Tianjin 300041, P. R. China
  • 4Department of Oral-Maxillofacial Surgery Tianjin Stomatological Hospital Hospital of Stomatology, Nankai University Tianjin 300041, P. R. China
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    Surgical excision is an effective treatment for oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), but exact intraoperative differentiation OSCC from the normal tissue is the first premise. As a noninvasive imaging technique, optical coherence tomography (OCT) has the nearly same resolution as the histopathological examination, whose images contain rich information to assist surgeons to make clinical decisions. We extracted kinds of texture features from OCT images obtained by a homemade swept-source OCT system in this paper, and studied the identification of OSCC based on different combinations of texture features and machine learning classifiers. It was demonstrated that different combinations had different accuracies, among which the combination of texture features, gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM), Laws' texture measures (LM), and center symmetric auto-correlation (CSAC), and SVM as the classifier, had the optimal comprehensive identification effect, whose accuracy was 94.1%. It was proven that it is feasible to distinguish OSCC based on texture features in OCT images, and it has great potential in helping surgeons make rapid and accurate decisions in oral clinical practice.

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    Zihan Yang, Jianwei Shang, Chenlu Liu, Jun Zhang, Yanmei Liang. Identification of oral squamous cell carcinoma in optical coherence tomography images based on texture features[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2021, 14(1): 2140001

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    Paper Information

    Received: Sep. 28, 2020

    Accepted: Nov. 19, 2020

    Published Online: Apr. 7, 2021

    The Author Email: Liang Yanmei (ymliang@nankai.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1142/s1793545821400010

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