Assessing the biomechanical properties of tissues can have important applications for disease diagnosis and treatment monitoring. Optical coherence elastography is an established technology for measuring the biomechanical properties of tissues, and has been implemented ex vivo, in vivo, and clinically. Various steps are required for effective translation of this technology, including making improvements in data analysis and processing. OCE data can be inherently noisy, a single data acquisition can consist of gigabytes of data, and data processing can be lengthy. In this work, we examine how convolutional neural networks can be implemented to efficiently process OCE data.
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