Evaluation of segmentation algorithms for optical coherence tomography images of ovarian tissue

Travis W. Sawyer; Photini F. S. Rice; David M. Sawyer; Jennifer W. Koevary; Jennifer K. Barton

doi:10.1117/12.2283375

7 February 2018 Evaluation of segmentation algorithms for optical coherence tomography images of ovarian tissue

Travis W. Sawyer, Photini F. S. Rice, David M. Sawyer, Jennifer W. Koevary, Jennifer K. Barton

Proceedings Volume 10472, Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases in the Breast and Reproductive System IV; 1047204 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2283375
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Ovarian cancer has the lowest survival rate among all gynecologic cancers due to predominantly late diagnosis. Early detection of ovarian cancer can increase 5-year survival rates from 40% up to 92%, yet no reliable early detection techniques exist. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an emerging technique that provides depthresolved, high-resolution images of biological tissue in real time and demonstrates great potential for imaging of ovarian tissue. Mouse models are crucial to quantitatively assess the diagnostic potential of OCT for ovarian cancer imaging; however, due to small organ size, the ovaries must rst be separated from the image background using the process of segmentation. Manual segmentation is time-intensive, as OCT yields three-dimensional data. Furthermore, speckle noise complicates OCT images, frustrating many processing techniques. While much work has investigated noise-reduction and automated segmentation for retinal OCT imaging, little has considered the application to the ovaries, which exhibit higher variance and inhomogeneity than the retina. To address these challenges, we evaluated a set of algorithms to segment OCT images of mouse ovaries. We examined ve preprocessing techniques and six segmentation algorithms. While all pre-processing methods improve segmentation, Gaussian filtering is most effective, showing an improvement of 32% +/- 1.2%. Of the segmentation algorithms, active contours performs best, segmenting with an accuracy of 0.948 +/- 0.012 compared with manual segmentation (1.0 being identical). Nonetheless, further optimization could lead to maximizing the performance for segmenting OCT images of the ovaries.

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Travis W. Sawyer, Photini F. S. Rice, David M. Sawyer, Jennifer W. Koevary, and Jennifer K. Barton "Evaluation of segmentation algorithms for optical coherence tomography images of ovarian tissue", Proc. SPIE 10472, Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases in the Breast and Reproductive System IV, 1047204 (7 February 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2283375

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