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Multi-focus image fusion with enhancement filtering for robust vascular quantification using photoacoustic microscopy
- Source :
- Optics Letters. 47:3732
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Optica Publishing Group, 2022.
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Abstract
- Accurate identification and quantification of microvascular patterns are important for clinical diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring using optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy (OR-PAM). Due to its limited depth of field, conventional OR-PAM may not fully reveal microvascular patterns with enough details in depth range, which affects the segmentation and quantification. Here, we propose a robust vascular quantification approach via combining multi-focus image fusion with enhancement filtering (MIFEF). The multi-focus image fusion is constructed based on multi-scale gradients and image matting to improve image fusion quality by considerably achieving accurate focus measurement for initial segmentation as well as decision map refinement. The enhancement filtering identifies the vessels and handles noise without deforming microvasculature. The performance of the MIFEF were evaluated employing a leaf phantom, mouse livers and brains. The proposed method for OR-PAM can significantly facilitate the clinical provision of optical biopsy of vascular-related diseases.
Details
- ISSN :
- 15394794 and 01469592
- Volume :
- 47
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Optics Letters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a1353cc4a09eb80a063eff0e699fca4b