title: Automatic airway wall segmentation and thickness measurement for long-range optical coherence tomography images.
abstract: We present an automatic segmentation method for the delineation and quantitative thickness measurement of multiple layers in endoscopic airway optical coherence tomography (OCT) images. The boundaries of the mucosa and the sub-mucosa layers are accurately extracted using a graph-theory-based dynamic programming algorithm. The algorithm was tested with sheep airway OCT images. Quantitative thicknesses of the mucosal layers are obtained automatically for smoke inhalation injury experiments.
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Qi
authors.forename: Shenghai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Andrew E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Heidari
authors.forename: Cuixia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.forename: Jiang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Xuping
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Zhongping
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D001331:Automation / Q000379:methods*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004724:Endoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D020545:Respiratory Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D012137:Respiratory System / Q000473:pathology*; D012756:Sheep; D015208:Smoke Inhalation Injury / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000379:methods*
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