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Vessel-Based Registration of Fundus and Optical Coherence Tomography Projection Images of Retina Using a Quadratic Registration Model Publisher



Golabbakhsh M1 ; Rabbani H1
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  1. 1. Biomedical Engineering Department, Medical Image and Signal Processing Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

Source: IET Image Processing Published:2013


Abstract

The new techniques of three-dimensional (3D)-optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging is very useful for detecting retinal pathologic changes in various diseases and determining retinal thickness 'abnormalities'. Fundus colour images have been used for several years for detecting retinal abnormalities too. If the two image modalities were combined, the resulted image would be more informative. The first step to combine these two modalities is to register colour fundus images with an en face representation of OCT. In this study, curvelet transform is used to extract vessels for both modalities. Then the extracted vessels from two modalities are registered together in two stages. At first, images are registered using scaling and translation transformations. Then a quadratic transformation model is assumed between two pairs of images; because retina is imaged as a second-order surface. Twenty-two eyes (17 macular and 5 prepapillary), from random patients, were imaged in this study with Topcon 3D OCT1000 instrument. A new registration error is defined which averages the distance between all the corresponding points in two sets of vessels. Results show that registration error after stage one is 6.01 ± 1.82 pixels and after stage two is 1.02 ± 0.02 pixels. © The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2013.
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