Vessel-Promoted OCT to OCTA Image Translation by Heuristic Contextual Constraints

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Auteurs principaux: Li, Shuhan, Zhang, Dong, Li, Xiaomeng, Ou, Chubin, An, Lin, Xu, Yanwu, Cheng, Kwang-Ting
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author Li, Shuhan
Zhang, Dong
Li, Xiaomeng
Ou, Chubin
An, Lin
Xu, Yanwu
Cheng, Kwang-Ting
author_facet Li, Shuhan
Zhang, Dong
Li, Xiaomeng
Ou, Chubin
An, Lin
Xu, Yanwu
Cheng, Kwang-Ting
contents Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCTA) is a crucial tool in the clinical screening of retinal diseases, allowing for accurate 3D imaging of blood vessels through non-invasive scanning. However, the hardware-based approach for acquiring OCTA images presents challenges due to the need for specialized sensors and expensive devices. In this paper, we introduce a novel method called TransPro, which can translate the readily available 3D Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images into 3D OCTA images without requiring any additional hardware modifications. Our TransPro method is primarily driven by two novel ideas that have been overlooked by prior work. The first idea is derived from a critical observation that the OCTA projection map is generated by averaging pixel values from its corresponding B-scans along the Z-axis. Hence, we introduce a hybrid architecture incorporating a 3D adversarial generative network and a novel Heuristic Contextual Guidance (HCG) module, which effectively maintains the consistency of the generated OCTA images between 3D volumes and projection maps. The second idea is to improve the vessel quality in the translated OCTA projection maps. As a result, we propose a novel Vessel Promoted Guidance (VPG) module to enhance the attention of network on retinal vessels. Experimental results on two datasets demonstrate that our TransPro outperforms state-of-the-art approaches, with relative improvements around 11.4% in MAE, 2.7% in PSNR, 2% in SSIM, 40% in VDE, and 9.1% in VDC compared to the baseline method. The code is available at: https://github.com/ustlsh/TransPro.
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spellingShingle Vessel-Promoted OCT to OCTA Image Translation by Heuristic Contextual Constraints
Li, Shuhan
Zhang, Dong
Li, Xiaomeng
Ou, Chubin
An, Lin
Xu, Yanwu
Cheng, Kwang-Ting
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCTA) is a crucial tool in the clinical screening of retinal diseases, allowing for accurate 3D imaging of blood vessels through non-invasive scanning. However, the hardware-based approach for acquiring OCTA images presents challenges due to the need for specialized sensors and expensive devices. In this paper, we introduce a novel method called TransPro, which can translate the readily available 3D Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images into 3D OCTA images without requiring any additional hardware modifications. Our TransPro method is primarily driven by two novel ideas that have been overlooked by prior work. The first idea is derived from a critical observation that the OCTA projection map is generated by averaging pixel values from its corresponding B-scans along the Z-axis. Hence, we introduce a hybrid architecture incorporating a 3D adversarial generative network and a novel Heuristic Contextual Guidance (HCG) module, which effectively maintains the consistency of the generated OCTA images between 3D volumes and projection maps. The second idea is to improve the vessel quality in the translated OCTA projection maps. As a result, we propose a novel Vessel Promoted Guidance (VPG) module to enhance the attention of network on retinal vessels. Experimental results on two datasets demonstrate that our TransPro outperforms state-of-the-art approaches, with relative improvements around 11.4% in MAE, 2.7% in PSNR, 2% in SSIM, 40% in VDE, and 9.1% in VDC compared to the baseline method. The code is available at: https://github.com/ustlsh/TransPro.
title Vessel-Promoted OCT to OCTA Image Translation by Heuristic Contextual Constraints
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06807