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In this article, we present a new method to extract internal and external borders (intimal-adventitial) of arteries from Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images. The method is based on A-scan segmentation. First, the distribution of the grey level values on every A-scan is analyzed separately using a sliding window to approximate a single-lobe distribution. Our hypothesis is that the position of the arterial tissue corresponds to the window which exhibits the largest single-lobe distribution. Once all the tissue is extracted from the image, every segmented A-scan position is corrected using a block of neighbouring segmented A-scans. Experimental results show that the proposed method is accurate and robust to extract arterial tissue.
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Bourezak, R., Lamouche, G., Cheriet, F. (2009). Artery Wall Extraction from Intravascular OCT Images. In: Kamel, M., Campilho, A. (eds) Image Analysis and Recognition. ICIAR 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5627. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02611-9_78
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