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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Mean-Subtraction Method for De-shadowing of Tail Artifacts in Cerebral OCTA Images: A Proof of Concept.

Woo June Choi, Bjorn Paulson, Sungwook Yu, Ruikang K Wang, Jun Ki Kim

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Woo June ChoiSchool of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea.
Bjorn PaulsonBiomedical Engineering Research Center, Asan Institute for Life Science, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 05505, Korea.
Sungwook YuSchool of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea.
Ruikang K WangDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, WA, USA.
Jun Ki KimBiomedical Engineering Research Center, Asan Institute for Life Science, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 05505, Korea.

Funding

Asan Institute for Life Sciences, Asan Medical Center 2019-0641Ministry of Health and Welfare HI18C2391Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy 10080726Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy 20000843National Research Foundation of Korea 2018R1A5A2020732National Research Foundation of Korea 2019R1A2C2084122
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Abstract

When imaging brain vasculature with optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA), volumetric analysis of cortical vascular networks in OCTA datasets is frequently challenging due to the presence of artifacts, which appear as multiple-scattering tails beneath superficial large vessels in OCTA images. These tails shadow underlying small vessels, making the assessment of vascular morphology in the deep cortex difficult. In this work, we introduce an image processing technique based on mean subtraction of the depth profile that can effectively reduce these tails to better reveal small hidden vessels compared to the current tail removal approach. With the improved vascular image quality, we demonstrate that this simple method can provide better visualization of three-dimensional vascular network topology for quantitative cerebrovascular studies.

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mean-subtractionOCT angiographyoptical coherence tomographytail artifact

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PMID32357466
PMCPMC7254351

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