Investigating recurrent neural networks for OCT A-scan based tissue analysis

C. Otte*, S. Otte, L. Wittig, G. Hüttmann, C. Kugler, D. Drömann, A. Zell, A. Schlaefer

*Corresponding author for this work
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Abstract

Objectives: Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) has been proposed as a high resolution image modality to guide transbronchial biopsies. In this study we address the question, whether individual A-scans obtained in needle direction can contribute to the identification of pulmonary nodules. Methods: OCT A-scans from freshly resected human lung tissue specimen were recorded through a customized needle with an embedded optical fiber. Bidirectional Long Short Term Memory networks (BLSTMs) were trained on randomly distributed training and test sets of the acquired A-scans. Patient specific training and different pre-processing steps were evaluated. Results: Classification rates from 67.5% up to 76% were archived for different training scenarios. Sensitivity and specificity were highest for a patient specific training with 0.87 and 0.85. Low pass filtering decreased the accuracy from 73.2% on a reference distribution to 62.2% for higher cutoff frequencies and to 56% for lower cutoff frequencies. Conclusion: The results indicate that a grey value based classification is feasible and may provide additional information for diagnosis and navigation. Furthermore, the experiments show patient specific signal properties and indicate that the lower and upper parts of the frequency spectrum contribute to the classification.

Original languageEnglish
JournalMethods of Information in Medicine
Volume53
Issue number4
Pages (from-to)245-249
Number of pages5
ISSN0026-1270
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 07.2014

Research Areas and Centers

  • Academic Focus: Biomedical Engineering

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