INVESTIGATION OF IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS IN OPTICAL COHERENT TOMOGRAPHY
USING INFORMATION CRITERIA

2009 , VOLUME 09, NUMBER 4 ( JULE-AUGUST )

ISSN 2226-1494 (print), ISSN 2500-0373 (online)

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Editor-in-Chief

Nikiforov
Vladimir O.
D.Sc., Prof.

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M. A. Volynsky, I. P. Gurov, A. S. Potapov

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Abstract

Representations of optical coherent tomography (OCT) images are investigated. Objective quality criterion of

representations is introduced on the base of recently developed principle of representational minimum

description length (RDML). Segmentation algorithm is proposed that detects layered structure of OCT images

and can be used in morphological analysis of biological tissues, especially, in disease diagnostics. It is shown,

that value of RMDL criterion is in accordance with expert estimation of adequacy of segmentation results. Thus,

this criterion can be utilized for further investigation and improvement of OCT image analysis algorithms.

Keywords: optical coherent tomography, image segmentation, information theory.