Automated segmentation of dermal fillers in OCT images of mice using convolutional neural networks

Martin Pfister, Kornelia Schützenberger, Ulrike Pfeiffenberger, Alina Messner, Z. H.E. Chen, Valentin Aranha Dos Santos, Stefan Puchner, Gerhard Garhöfer, Leopold Schmetterer, Martin Gröschl, René M. Werkmeister*

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Abstract

We present a system for automatic determination of the intradermal volume of hydrogels based on optical coherence tomography (OCT) and deep learning. Volumetric image data was acquired using a custom-built OCT prototype that employs an akinetic swept laser at ∼1310 nm with a bandwidth of 87 nm, providing an axial resolution of ∼6.5 µm in tissue. Three-dimensional data sets of a 10 mm × 10 mm skin patch comprising the intradermal filler and the surrounding tissue were acquired. A convolutional neural network using a u-net-like architecture was trained from slices of 100 OCT volume data sets where the dermal filler volume was manually annotated. Using six-fold cross-validation, a mean accuracy of 0.9938 and a Jaccard similarity coefficient of 0.879 were achieved.

Original languageEnglish
Article number#347728
Pages (from-to)1315-1328
Number of pages14
JournalBiomedical Optics Express
Volume10
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 1 2019
Externally publishedYes

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ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Biotechnology
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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