Real-Time Cerebral Vessel Segmentation in Laser Speckle Contrast Image Based on Unsupervised Domain AdaptationShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: Frontiers in Neuroscience, ISSN 1662-4548, E-ISSN 1662-453X, Vol. 15, article id 755198
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Abstract [en]
Laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) is a full-field, high spatiotemporal resolution and low-cost optical technique for measuring blood flow, which has been successfully used for neurovascular imaging. However, due to the low signal-noise ratio and the relatively small sizes, segmenting the cerebral vessels in LSCI has always been a technical challenge. Recently, deep learning has shown its advantages in vascular segmentation. Nonetheless, ground truth by manual labeling is usually required for training the network, which makes it difficult to implement in practice. In this manuscript, we proposed a deep learning-based method for real-time cerebral vessel segmentation of LSCI without ground truth labels, which could be further integrated into intraoperative blood vessel imaging system. Synthetic LSCI images were obtained with a synthesis network from LSCI images and public labeled dataset of Digital Retinal Images for Vessel Extraction, which were then used to train the segmentation network. Using matching strategies to reduce the size discrepancy between retinal images and laser speckle contrast images, we could further significantly improve image synthesis and segmentation performance. In the testing LSCI images of rodent cerebral vessels, the proposed method resulted in a dice similarity coefficient of over 75%.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Frontiers Media SA , 2021. Vol. 15, article id 755198
Keywords [en]
laser speckle contrast imaging, vessel segmentation, CycleGAN, domain adaptation, blood flow imaging
National Category
Medical Laboratory Technologies Surgery Medical Imaging
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-307033DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.755198ISI: 000733639200001PubMedID: 34916898Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85121249672OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-307033DiVA, id: diva2:1626365
Note
QC 20220111
2022-01-112022-01-112025-02-09Bibliographically approved