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OPHTHALMIC IMAGE
Year : 2020  |  Volume : 68  |  Issue : 10  |  Page : 2251

High-contrast scleroconjunctival microvasculature via deep learning denoising


Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Date of Web Publication23-Sep-2020

Correspondence Address:
Dr. Akitaka Tsujikawa
Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507
Japan
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DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_1079_20

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Kadomoto S, Uji A, Muraoka Y, Tsujikawa A. High-contrast scleroconjunctival microvasculature via deep learning denoising. Indian J Ophthalmol 2020;68:2251

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Kadomoto S, Uji A, Muraoka Y, Tsujikawa A. High-contrast scleroconjunctival microvasculature via deep learning denoising. Indian J Ophthalmol [serial online] 2020 [cited 2024 Mar 28];68:2251. Available from: https://journals.lww.com/ijo/pages/default.aspx/text.asp?2020/68/10/2251/295656



Anterior segment optical coherence tomography angiography (AS-OCTA) is a newly developed technique for noninvasive imaging of blood flow, including the scleroconjunctival microvasculature and iris.[1],[2] However, AS-OCTA images frequently have background noise because the OCTA devices were developed specially for retinal imaging. The left eye of a 45-year-old healthy individual of AS-OCTA image [Figure 1]a provides a scleroconjunctival microvasculature with significant background noise. A high-contrast image [Figure 1]b and [Figure 1]c is produced by applying deep learning-based denoising method (Intelligent denoise, Canon, Inc, Tokyo, Japan).[3] Panoramic high-contrast AS-OCTA image [Figure 1]c processed with deep learning-based denoising is useful to evaluate circumferential conjunctival vasculature.
Figure 1: Swept-source anterior segment-optical coherence tomography angiography (AS-OCTA) images (OCT S1: Canon, Inc, Tokyo, Japan). To visualize the conjunctival and deep scleral vessels, a 400-μm thick slab of the conjunctival surface was selected. Seven AS-OCTA images were used to reconstruct a panoramic image.

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Kadomoto S, Uji A, Tsujikawa A. Anterior segment optical coherence tomography angiography in a patient with persistent pupillary membrane. JAMA Ophthalmol2018;136:e182932.  Back to cited text no. 1
    
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Akagi T, Uji A, Huang AS, Weinreb RN, Yamada T, Miyata M, et al. Conjunctival and intrascleral vasculatures assessed using anterior segment optical coherence tomography angiography in normal eyes. Am J Ophthalmol2018;196:1-9.  Back to cited text no. 2
    
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Kadomoto S, Uji A, Muraoka Y, Akagi T, Tsujikawa A. Enhanced visualization of retinal microvasculature in optical coherence tomography angiography imaging via deep learning. J Clin Med2020;9. doi: 10.3390/jcm9051322.  Back to cited text no. 3
    


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