Automatic Segmentation Method for Retinal Serous Pigment Epithelial Detachment

Abstract

The invention provides an automatic segmentation method for retina serous pigment epithelial layer detachment. The method comprises the following steps: a, pretreatment: inputting a three-dimensional retinal image obtained by an optical coherence tomography eye imager into a computer, and de-noising an image detached from a retina serous pigment epithelial layer by using a curve anisotropic diffusion filtering method; b, automatic segmentation: layering the image detached from the retina serous pigment epithelial layer by using a graph search algorithm, so as to obtain an initial segmented result; obtaining foreground and background seed points according to the initial segmented result by using a mathematical morphology algorithm; automatically segmenting a retina serous pigment epithelium detachment region by using a graph cut algorithm; c, post-treatment: optimizing the automatic segmentation result by using the mathematical morphology algorithm. According to the invention, the graph search algorithm, the graph cut algorithm and the mathematical morphology algorithm are effectively combined, so that the automatic segmentation of the retina serous pigment epithelial layer detachment region is realized.

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technical field [0001] The design relates to an automatic segmentation method for retinal serous pigment epithelium detachment, and belongs to the technical fields of computer vision, medical image processing and analysis. Background technique [0002] Retinal serous pigment epithelial detachment may be caused by a variety of choroidal or retinal diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration, polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy, central serous chorioretinopathy, uveitis, etc. Since retinal serous pigment epithelial detachment often results in loss of central vision, automatic segmentation of retinal serous pigment epithelial detachment has important clinical implications. [0003] The current automatic retinal image segmentation algorithm has the following defects: (1) Most of the algorithms are two-dimensional algorithms, that is, they are segmented independently in each slice image (x-z plane image, called transverse scanning image). Making full use of 3D context infor...

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[0003] The current automatic retinal image segmentation algorithm has the following defects: (1) Most of the algorithms are two-dimensional algorithms, that is, they are segmented independently in each slice image (x-z plane image, called transverse scanning image). Make full use of three-dimensional context information, and are more susceptible to image noise or artifacts, resulting in segmentation errors

(2) Most of the existing retinal tissue hierarchical segmentation algorithms are designed for normal retina. When the retinal tissue is deformed due to lesions, these algorithms will fail

[0004] (3) Most of the existing retinal lesion area segmentation algorithms only qualitatively analyze the lesion area, and do not provide accurate quantitative information about the lesion area, such as shape, size and location, etc.

Therefore, the accuracy of diagnosis and treatment cannot be improved

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