Scattering coefficient maps acquired from optical coherence tomography aid in diagnosis of colorectal abnormalities

In this ex vivo study, we report the first use of texture features and computer vision-based image features acquired from en face scattering coefficient maps to diagnose colorectal diseases. From these maps, texture features were extracted from a gray-level co-occurrence matrix algorithm, and computer vision-based image features were derived using a scale-invariant feature transform algorithm. Twenty-five features were obtained and thirty-three patients were recruited. Machine learning models were trained using an optimal feature set. The trained models achieved 94.7% sensitivity and 94.0% specificity for differentiating abnormal from normal, and 86.9% sensitivity and 85.0% specificity when distinguishing adenomatous polyp from cancer.