Articles from Damon Wing Kee Wong

1. Subsurface detection of hair follicles in alopecia areata using optical coherence tomography

   Explore Wiley Online Library Jan 13 2022 Dermatology

   

   Dear Editors, Alopecia areata (AA) is an autoimmune skin disorder that affects any hair-bearing areas and results in localized nonscarring hair loss. It can occur in individuals at any age regardless of ethnicity with a lifetime risk of 1–2%. 1 The loss of hair is caused by perifollicular inflammation, which is associated with cytokines and chemokines released by T cells. 2 , 3 Although spontaneous regrowth is possible in 80% of patchy AA, full resolution is slow. 4 Patients with AA can be treated with various treatment options including a topical or intralesional steroid. While intralesional steroid injection is more ...

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   Mentions: Nanyang Technological University

2. Automatic fibroatheroma identification in intravascular optical coherence tomography volumes

   Explore Home - Springer Oct 24 2019 Cardiology

   

   Coronary heart disease is the most common type of heart disease that leads to heart attacks. The identification of vulnerable plaques, especially the thin-cap fibroatheroma (TCFA), is crucial to the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. Intravascular optical coherence tomography (IVOCT), an emerging imaging modality, has been proven to be useful for the identification of vulnerable plaques. In this work, we propose an approach to identify the volumes with fibroatheroma frames automatically. In the proposed method, we first detect the lumen using a graph-search based method from unfolded images. Then a region of interest starting from the lumen boundary is cropped ...

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   Mentions: National University of Singapore Wakayama Medical University Chinese Academy of Sciences

3. A Deep Learning System for Automated Angle-Closure Detection in Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography Images

   Explore American Journal of Ophthalmology Mar 5 2019 Ophthalmology

   

   Purpose Anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) provides an objective imaging modality for visually identifying anterior segment structures. An automated detection system could assist ophthalmologists in interpreting AS-OCT images for presence of angle closure. Design Development of an artificial intelligence automated detection system for the presence of angle closure. Methods A deep learning system for automated angle-closure detection in AS-OCT images was developed, and this was compared with another automated angle-closure detection system based on quantitative features. A total of 4135 Visante AS-OCT images from 2113 subjects (8270 anterior chamber angle (ACA) images with 7375 open-angle and 895 angle-closure) were ...

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   Mentions: Singapore Eye Research Institute

4. Segmentation and Quantification for Angle-Closure Glaucoma Assessment in Anterior Segment OCT

   Explore IEEE Xplore Aug 31 2017 Ophthalmology

   

   Angle-closure glaucoma is a major cause of irreversible visual impairment and can be identified by measuring the anterior chamber angle (ACA) of the eye. The ACA can be viewed clearly through anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT), but the imaging characteristics and the shapes and locations of major ocular structures can vary significantly among different AS-OCT modalities, thus complicating image analysis. To address this problem, we propose a data-driven approach for automatic AS-OCT structure segmentation, measurement, and screening. Our technique first estimates initial markers in the eye through label transfer from a hand-labeled exemplar data set, whose images are collected ...

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   Mentions: Singapore Eye Research Institute National University of Singapore

5. Automatic Fibroatheroma Identification from Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography Images

   Explore Apache Tomcat Feb 7 2017 Cardiology

   

   Vulnerable plaque identification is important in coronary heart disease diagnosis. Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography (IVOCT) is an imaging modality which can characterize the appearance of vulnerable plaques. However, current used manual reading of the images is time consuming and subjective. Therefore, an automated and objective assessment of the plaque is necessary. This paper proposes a method for automatic identification of potential vulnerable plaque such as fibroatheroma in IVOCT images. In the proposed method, a graph search based method is applied to detect the region of interest (ROI) including the inner lumen border and outer border. Then various appearance features including ...

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   Mentions: Wakayama Medical University

6. Axial Alignment for Anterior Segment Swept Source Optical Coherence Tomography via Robust Low-Rank Tensor Recovery

   Explore Home - Springer Oct 23 2016 Ophthalmology

   

   We present a one-step approach based on low-rank tensor recovery for axial alignment in 360-degree anterior chamber optical coherence tomography. Achieving translational alignment and rotation correction of cross-sections simultaneously, this technique obtains a better anterior segment topographical representation and improves quantitative measurement accuracy and reproducibility of disease related parameters. Through its use of global information, the proposed method is more robust compared to using only individual or paired slices, and less sensitive to noise and motion artifacts. In angle closure analysis on 30 patient eyes, the preliminary results indicate that the proposed axial alignment method can not only facilitate manual ...

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   Mentions: Brigham and Women’s Hospital University College London Harvard University

7. Motion Correction in Optical Coherence Tomography for Multi-modality Retinal Image Registration

   Explore Iowa Research Online Oct 18 2016 Ophthalmology

   

   Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a recently developed non-invasive imaging modality, which is often used in ophthalmology. Because of the sequential scanning in form of A-scans, OCT suffers from the inevitable eye movement. This often leads to mis-alignment especially among consecutive B-scans, which affects the analysis and processing of the data such as the registration of the OCT en face image to color fundus image. In this paper, we propose a novel method to correct the mis-alignment among consecutive B-scans to improve the accuracy in multi-modality retinal image registration. In the method, we propose to compute decorrelation from overlapping B-scans ...

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8. Speckle Reduction in 3D Optical Coherence Tomography of Retina by A-Scan Reconstruction

   Explore IEEE Xplore Apr 27 2016 Ophthalmology

   

   Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a micrometer-scale, cross-sectional imaging modality for biological tissue. It has been widely used for retinal imaging in ophthalmology. Speckle noise is problematic in OCT. A raw OCT image/volume usually has very poor image quality due to speckle noise, which often obscures the retinal structures. Overlapping scan is often used for speckle reduction in a 2D line-scan. However, it leads to an increase of the data acquisition time. Therefore, it is unpractical in 3D scan as it requires a much longer data acquisition time. In this paper, we propose a new method for speckle reduction ...

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   Mentions: Topcon Medical Systems Chinese Academy of Sciences

9. Speckle reduction in optical coherence tomography by matrix completion using bilateral random projection

   Explore IEEE Xplore Jan 9 2015

   

   Speckle noise is problematic in optical coherence tomography (OCT) and often obscures the structure details. In this paper, we propose a new method to reduce speckle noise from multiply scanned OCT slices. The proposed method registers the OCT scans using a global alignment followed by a local alignment based on global and local motion estimation. Then low rank matrix completion using bilateral random projection is utilized to estimate the noise and recover the clean image. Experimental results show that the proposed method archives average contrast to noise ratio 14.90, better than 13.78 by the state-of-the-art method used in ...

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   Mentions: Topcon Medical Systems

10. Automatic atherosclerotic heart disease detection in intracoronary optical coherence tomography images

    Explore IEEE Xplore Nov 9 2014 Cardiology

    

    Intracoronary optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a new invasive imaging system which produces highresolution images of coronary arteries. Preliminary data suggests that the atherosclerotic disease can be detected from the intracoronary OCT images. However, manual assessment of the intracoronary OCT images is time-consuming and subjective. In this work, we present an automatic atherosclerotic disease detection system on intracoronary OCT images. In the system, a preprocessing scheme is first applied to remove speckle noise and artifacts caused by catheter. Intensity, Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG), and Local Binary Patterns (LBP) are then extracted to represent the OCT image. Finally a linear ...

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    Mentions: Wakayama Medical University

11. Speckle Reduction in Optical Coherence Tomography by Image Registration and Matrix Completion

    Explore Home - Springer Oct 22 2014

    

    Speckle noise is problematic in optical coherence tomography (OCT). With the fast scan rate, swept source OCT scans the same position in the retina for multiple times rapidly and computes an average image from the multiple scans for speckle reduction. However, the eye movement poses some challenges. In this paper, we propose a new method for speckle reduction from multiply-scanned OCT slices. The proposed method applies a preliminary speckle reduction on the OCT slices and then registers them using a global alignment followed by a local alignment based on fast iterative diamond search. After that, low rank matrix completion using ...

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    Mentions: Topcon Medical Systems

12. Automated anterior chamber angle localization and glaucoma type classification in OCT images

    Explore IEEE Xplore Oct 12 2013 Ophthalmology

    

    To identify glaucoma type with OCT (optical coherence tomography) images, we present an image processing and machine learning based framework to localize and classify anterior chamber angle (ACA) accurately and efficiently. In digital OCT photographs, our method automatically localizes the ACA region, which is the primary structural image cue for clinically identifying glaucoma type. Next, visual features are extracted from this region to classify the angle as open angle (OA) or angle-closure (AC). This proposed method has three major contributions that differ from existing methods. First, the ACA localization from OCT images is fully automated and efficient for different ACA ...

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    Mentions: Singapore Eye Research Institute

13. Corneal graft detection for Descemet's Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty using Optical Coherence Tomography

    Explore IEEE Xplore Nov 27 2010 Ophthalmology

    

    The cornea is the window of the eye and when it is severely damaged or diseased, vision is impaired. Descemet's Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty (DSAEK) is a surgical procedure to replace the malfunctioned Descemet's membrane with a healthy one in order to restore the patient's sight. After the operation, ophthalmologists need to monitor the grafted membrane to check for signs of detachment, rejection, etc. and take appropriate actions before graft failure occurs. In this paper, we introduce the COrneaL GrAft Thickness Evaluation (COLGATE) System that we developed for ophthalmologists for the evaluation of the transplanted corneal graft ...

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Topics in the News

1. (3 articles) Singapore Eye Research Institute
2. (3 articles) Wakayama Medical University
3. (3 articles) Topcon Medical Systems
4. (2 articles) National University of Singapore
5. (2 articles) Chinese Academy of Sciences
6. (1 articles) Harvard University
7. (1 articles) University College London
8. (1 articles) Brigham and Women’s Hospital
9. (1 articles) Nanyang Technological University

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• Corneal graft detection for Descemet's Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty using Optical Coherence Tomography  
• Automated anterior chamber angle localization and glaucoma type classification in OCT images  
• Speckle Reduction in 3D Optical Coherence Tomography of Retina by A-Scan Reconstruction  
• Axial Alignment for Anterior Segment Swept Source Optical Coherence Tomography via Robust Low-Rank Tensor Recovery  
• Speckle Reduction in Optical Coherence Tomography by Image Registration and Matrix Completion  
• Speckle reduction in optical coherence tomography by matrix completion using bilateral random projection  
• Automatic atherosclerotic heart disease detection in intracoronary optical coherence tomography images  
• Automatic Fibroatheroma Identification from Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography Images  
• Motion Correction in Optical Coherence Tomography for Multi-modality Retinal Image Registration  
• Automatic fibroatheroma identification in intravascular optical coherence tomography volumes  

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