OCTSurfer - Advanced Imaging and Integrated Image Analysis Platform for 3D Optical Coherence Tomography Images of the Eye

眼科医生使用镜片观察眼睛后部的视网膜，以寻找导致视力问题的疾病。使用这些镜片，他们只能看到视网膜的表面。而且，他们看到的东西很少被记录下来。眼科医生的目击证词是此时临床诊断的方式。一项名为OCT的新技术可以显示视网膜表面以下的照片。这些图像首先被记录下来，然后由眼科医生分析。由于这些设备一次只能看到视网膜的一小部分，眼科医生更喜欢使用透镜直接透过视网膜的旧方式。我们建议开发一种新的OCT扫描仪，它可以记录整个视网膜的图像，与直接使用镜片看到的区域相同或更好，所以医生不会错过任何东西。与此同时，OCT图像显示了表面之下的东西，比如血管。由于视网膜图像被记录下来，这些图像可以被不止一名医生解释和讨论，并被送到另一家诊所进行更多的分析和专家意见。我们建议开发使用方程来根据这些图像进行测量的计算机程序。因此，医生不仅可以在大范围内看到视网膜下方，他们还可以进行测量，以确定视网膜内的某个区域是否健康，或者是否存在一些问题，如视网膜细胞受损、血液供应不足或受损，或任何其他损害。我们提出的OCTSurfer技术有可能使医生通过进行难以直观地进行详细和微小的测量来轻松发现疾病。这将降低出错的可能性，比如当某事被判断为问题时，或当问题被遗漏时。居住在远离城市的人们可以通过将他们的图像发送到城市诊所的眼科医生那里而受益。验光师可以使用OCTSurfer来筛查疾病，并将患者转介给眼科专家进行适当的诊断。

Eye doctors use lenses to look inside the back of the eye, at the retina, to search for diseasescausing vision problems. With these lenses, they can only see the surface of the retina. Also,what they see is rarely recorded. Eye-witness testimony of the eye doctor is how clinicaldiagnosis is done at this time. A new technology called OCT can show pictures of the retinabelow the surface. These pictures are recorded first and then analyzed by the eye doctor.Since these devices only see a small area of the retina at a time, eye doctors prefer the oldway of looking through the retina directly using lenses.We propose to develop a new OCT scanner that can record a picture of the full retina, thesame or better than the area seen with lenses directly, so doctors dont miss anything. At thesame time, OCT pictures show what's below the surface, like blood vessels. Since the retinapictures are recorded, these can be interpreted and discussed by more than one doctor, andevent sent to another clinic for more analysis and expert opinion.We propose to develop computer programs that use equations to make measurements fromthese pictures. So not only can the doctor see below the retina over a wide area, they canalso get measurements that let them decide if a region inside the retina is healthy or if there issome problem such as damaged cells in the retina, poor or damaged blood supply, or anyother damage.The OCTSurfer technology that we propose has the potential to make it easy for doctors tofind diseases by making detailed and minute measurements that are difficult to make visually.This will lower the chances of errors, like when something is judged to be a problem when itisnt, or when a problem is missed. People living far from cities can benefit by sending theirimages to a eye doctor in a city clinic. Optometrists could use OCTSurfer to screen fordisease and refer people to eye specialists for proper diagnosis.