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A super-resolution method-based pipeline for fundus fluorescein angiography imaging.
Biomedical Engineering Online 2018 September 20
BACKGROUND: Fundus fluorescein angiography (FFA) imaging is a standard diagnostic tool for many retinal diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. High-resolution FFA images facilitate the detection of small lesions such as microaneurysms, and other landmark changes, in the early stages; this can help an ophthalmologist improve a patient's cure rate. However, only low-resolution images are available in most clinical cases. Super-resolution (SR), which is a method to improve the resolution of an image, has been successfully employed for natural and remote sensing images. To the best of our knowledge, no one has applied SR techniques to FFA imaging so far.
METHODS: In this work, we propose a SR method-based pipeline for FFA imaging. The aim of this pipeline is to enhance the image quality of FFA by using SR techniques. Several SR frameworks including neighborhood embedding, sparsity-based, locally-linear regression and deep learning-based approaches are investigated. Based on a clinical FFA dataset collected from Second Affiliated Hospital to Xuzhou Medical University, each SR method is implemented and evaluated for the pipeline to improve the resolution of FFA images.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: As shown in our results, most SR algorithms have a positive impact on the enhancement of FFA images. Super-resolution forests (SRF), a random forest-based SR method has displayed remarkable high effectiveness and outperformed other methods. Hence, SRF should be one potential way to benefit ophthalmologists by obtaining high-resolution FFA images in a clinical setting.
METHODS: In this work, we propose a SR method-based pipeline for FFA imaging. The aim of this pipeline is to enhance the image quality of FFA by using SR techniques. Several SR frameworks including neighborhood embedding, sparsity-based, locally-linear regression and deep learning-based approaches are investigated. Based on a clinical FFA dataset collected from Second Affiliated Hospital to Xuzhou Medical University, each SR method is implemented and evaluated for the pipeline to improve the resolution of FFA images.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: As shown in our results, most SR algorithms have a positive impact on the enhancement of FFA images. Super-resolution forests (SRF), a random forest-based SR method has displayed remarkable high effectiveness and outperformed other methods. Hence, SRF should be one potential way to benefit ophthalmologists by obtaining high-resolution FFA images in a clinical setting.
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