A novel mosaicking algorithm for in vivo full-field thickness mapping of the human tympanic membrane using low coherence interferometry (Conference Presentation)

Paritosh Pande; Ryan L. Shelton; Guillermo L. Monroy; Ryan M. Nolan; Stephen A. Boppart

doi:10.1117/12.2213636

27 April 2016 A novel mosaicking algorithm for in vivo full-field thickness mapping of the human tympanic membrane using low coherence interferometry (Conference Presentation)

Paritosh Pande, Ryan L. Shelton, Guillermo L. Monroy, Ryan M. Nolan, Stephen A. Boppart

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Proceedings Volume 9689, Photonic Therapeutics and Diagnostics XII; 96892C (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2213636
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Tympanic membrane (TM) thickness can provide crucial information for diagnosing several middle ear pathologies. An imaging system integrating low coherence interferometry (LCI) with the standard video otoscope has been shown as a promising tool for quantitative assessment of in-vivo TM thickness. The small field-of-view (FOV) of TM surface images acquired by the combined LCI-otoscope system, however, makes the spatial registration of the LCI imaging sites and their location on the TM difficult to achieve. It is therefore desirable to have a tool that can map the imaged points on to an anatomically accurate full-field surface image of the TM. To this end, we propose a novel automated mosaicking algorithm for generating a full-field surface image of the TM with co-registered LCI imaging sites from a sequence of multiple small FOV images and corresponding LCI data. Traditional image mosaicking techniques reported in the biomedical literature, mostly for retinal imaging, are not directly applicable to TM image mosaicking because unlike retinal images, which have several distinctive features, TM images contain large homogeneous areas lacking in sharp features. The proposed algorithm overcomes these challenges of TM image mosaicking by following a two-step approach. In the first step, a coarse registration based on the correlation of gross image features is performed. Subsequently, in the second step, the coarsely registered images are used to perform a finer intensity-based co-registration. The proposed algorithm is used to generate, for the first time, full-field thickness distribution maps of in-vivo human TMs.

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Paritosh Pande, Ryan L. Shelton, Guillermo L. Monroy, Ryan M. Nolan, and Stephen A. Boppart "A novel mosaicking algorithm for in vivo full-field thickness mapping of the human tympanic membrane using low coherence interferometry (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 9689, Photonic Therapeutics and Diagnostics XII, 96892C (27 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2213636

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In vivo imaging

Imaging systems

Interferometry

Image registration

Biomedical optics

Coherence (optics)

Ear

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