Vis-OCT Explorer: an open-source software for visible-light optical coherence tomography data processing.

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Název: Vis-OCT Explorer: an open-source software for visible-light optical coherence tomography data processing.
Autoři: Fan W, Xu F, Kuranov R, Zambrano R, Chen J, Wu J, Lee SH, Trang KQ, Mirza R, Simon S, Lavinsky F, Liu X, Goldberg JL, Huang AS, Schuman JS, Zhang HF
Zdroj: BioRxiv : the preprint server for biology [bioRxiv] 2025 Oct 03. Date of Electronic Publication: 2025 Oct 03.
Způsob vydávání: Journal Article; Preprint
Jazyk: English
Informace o časopise: Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101680187 Publication Model: Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2692-8205 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 26928205 NLM ISO Abbreviation: bioRxiv Subsets: PubMed not MEDLINE
Abstrakt: Background and Objectives: Visible-light optical coherence tomography (vis-OCT) has enabled the visualization of retinal structures and functions beyond the capabilities of conventional OCTs. However, to reconstruct high-quality images, vis-OCT requires special post-processing, including balanced detection. An open-source, standardized vis-OCT data processing software is essential for clinical applications and translation of vis-OCT.
Methods: We developed Vis-OCT Explorer, an open-source, modular Python-based software for processing vis-OCT images. In addition to the standard spectral-domain OCT processing pipeline - including k-space resampling, dispersion compensation, and fast Fourier transformation - Vis-OCT Explorer offers unique dual-spectrometer balanced detection, short-time-Fourier transformation (STFT) based dispersion compensation coefficient optimization, and GPU-accelerated processing. We evaluated the reconstruction performance by quantifying a quality index extracted from individual B-scan images. We also assessed the repeatability of retinal thickness measurements by five operators on images acquired from different testing sites using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) analysis.
Results: Balanced detection and STFT-based dispersion compensation significantly increased the quality index of reconstructed B-scan images. ICC values of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) and ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer (GCIPL) thickness measurements from four testing sites exceeded 0.8 in 87.5% of the macular-centered images. The ICC of RNFL thickness measurements on all optic nerve head-centered images is above 0.8, showing strong repeatability across users.
Conclusions: Vis-OCT Explorer provides high-quality image processing and enables highly repeatable measurements on vis-OCT human retinal images. It facilitates future multicenter clinical tests to validate vis-OCT's clinical efficacy.
Entry Date(s): Date Created: 20251119 Date Completed: 20251119 Latest Revision: 20251119
Update Code: 20251119
PubMed Central ID: PMC12621698
DOI: 10.1101/2025.10.01.679626
PMID: 41256529
Databáze: MEDLINE
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