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Abstract
Significance: Optical endomicroscopy (OEM) is a novel real-time imaging technology that provides endoscopic images at a microscopic level. The nature of OEM data, as acquired in clinical use, gives rise to the presence of uninformative frames (i.e. pure-noise and motion-artefacts). Uninformative frames can comprise a considerable proportion (up to >25%) of a dataset, increasing the resources required for analysing the data (both manually and automatically), as well as diluting the results of any automated quantification analysis. Objective: There is therefore a need to automatically detect and remove as many of these uninformative frames as possible while keeping frames with structural information intact. Methods: This paper employs Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix texture measures and detection theory to identify and remove such frames. The detection of pure-noise frames and motion artefacts is treated as two independent problems. Results: Pulmonary OEM frame sequences of the distal lung are employed for the development and assessment of the approach. The proposed approach identifies and removes uninformative frames with a sensitivity of 93% and a specificity of 92.6%. Conclusion: The detection algorithm is accurate and robust in pulmonary OEM frame sequences. Conditional to appropriate model refinement, the algorithms can become applicable in other organs.
Original language | English |
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Journal | IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering |
Early online date | 10 Mar 2016 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 10 Mar 2016 |
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Multiplexed 'Touch and Tell' Optical Molecular Sensing and Imaging
1/10/13 → 31/03/19
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Ahsan Akram
- Deanery of Clinical Sciences - Cancer Research UK Clinician Scientist
- Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre - Cancer Research UK Clinician Scientist
- Centre for Inflammation Research
Person: Academic: Research Active (Research Assistant)