Signal processing for an optical coherence tomography (OCT) apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US10152807B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-11

    申请号:US15182057

    申请日:2016-06-14

    申请人: NIDEK CO., LTD.

    摘要: An OCT signal processing apparatus includes: a OCT signal receiver configured to receive a plurality of OCT signals detected by an OCT device based on measurement light radiated to a test substance and reference light; a display; a controller configured to: processes the plurality of OCT signals received by the OCT signal receiver to obtain 3-dimensional motion contrast data; extract depth region data from the 3-dimensional motion contrast data, the depth region data representing motion contrast data in a depth region of a part of the test substance; and display, on the display, a confirmation screen including the motion contrast image based on the depth region data to confirm quality of 3-dimensional motion contrast data obtained by processing the plurality of OCT signals which are temporally different from each other in the same region of the test substance.

    Optical coherence tomography apparatus and data processing program

    公开(公告)号:US10213100B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-26

    申请号:US14753274

    申请日:2015-06-29

    申请人: NIDEK CO., LTD.

    摘要: An optical coherence tomography apparatus includes an OCT optical system configured to detect an OCT signal based on measurement light scanned on scan positions of a subject including a blood vessel network by a scanning unit and reference light. The optical coherence tomography apparatus is configured to execute: a signal processing instruction of processing OCT signals which are temporally different from each other with respect to a same position on the subject and generating a motion contrast image which images distribution of a moving object in a depth direction at each of the scan positions based on the OCT signals; and a detecting instruction of analyzing a profile in the depth direction of the motion contrast image generated by the signal processing unit and detecting a change resulting from the blood vessel to detect the blood vessel network included in the subject.

    Optical coherence tomography device and optical coherence tomography control program

    公开(公告)号:US09795291B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-10-24

    申请号:US15184211

    申请日:2016-06-16

    申请人: NIDEK CO., LTD.

    IPC分类号: A61B3/12 A61B3/10 A61B3/113

    摘要: An optical coherence tomography device includes: an OCT optical system configured to obtain a OCT signal; a front observation optical system configured to obtain a front image of the test substance; and a controller is configured to: control the OCT optical system to obtain first temporally different OCT signals with respect to the test substance; control the front observation optical system to obtain a first front image of the test substance at the time the first OCT signals are obtained; control the front observation optical system to obtain a second front image of the test substance after that; determine whether or not the plurality of first OCT signals are good based on a positional deviation between the first and second front images; and obtain motion contrast data of the test substance when it is determined that the plurality of first OCT signals are good.

    Ophthalmological image processing apparatus and storage medium

    公开(公告)号:US11051690B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-06

    申请号:US16282435

    申请日:2019-02-22

    申请人: NIDEK CO., LTD.

    摘要: An ophthalmological image processing apparatus includes an image obtaining portion for obtaining ophthalmological image data, which is captured by an imaging unit, of a subject eye, and an image processing portion for processing the ophthalmological image data. The image processing portion uses a first front image of the subject eye in a first depth region to correct a second front image of the subject eye captured in a second depth region which is different from the first depth region. The first front image and the second front image are constructed based on the ophthalmological image data. The ophthalmological image processing apparatus can reduce an artifact which is generated in an ophthalmological image.

    OPHTHALMOLOGIC IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER-READABLE INSTRUCTIONS

    公开(公告)号:US20200245858A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-06

    申请号:US16778257

    申请日:2020-01-31

    申请人: NIDEK CO., LTD.

    摘要: A processor of an ophthalmologic image processing device acquires an ophthalmologic image photographed by an ophthalmologic image photographing device. The processor inputs the ophthalmologic image into a mathematical model trained by a machine learning algorithm to acquire a result of an analysis relating to at least one of a specific disease and a specific structure of a subject eye. The processor acquires information of a distribution of weight relating to an analysis by a mathematical model, as supplemental distribution information, for which an image area of the ophthalmologic image input into the mathematical model is set as a variable. The processor sets a part of the image area of the ophthalmologic image, as an attention area, based on the supplemental distribution information. The processor acquires an image of a tissue including the attention area among a tissue of the subject eye and displays the image on a display unit.

    OPHTHALMOLOGICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM

    公开(公告)号:US20190269319A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-05

    申请号:US16282435

    申请日:2019-02-22

    申请人: NIDEK Co., Ltd.

    IPC分类号: A61B3/10 A61B3/14 A61B3/12

    摘要: An ophthalmological image processing apparatus includes an image obtaining portion for obtaining ophthalmological image data, which is captured by an imaging unit, of a subject eye, and an image processing portion for processing the ophthalmological image data. The image processing portion uses a first front image of the subject eye in a first depth region to correct a second front image of the subject eye captured in a second depth region which is different from the first depth region. The first front image and the second front image are constructed based on the ophthalmological image data. The ophthalmological image processing apparatus can reduce an artifact which is generated in an ophthalmological image.

    OCT signal processing device and recording medium

    公开(公告)号:US11452452B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-27

    申请号:US16068452

    申请日:2017-01-05

    申请人: NIDEK CO., LTD.

    摘要: An OCT signal processing device has an acquisition unit for acquiring three or more OCT signals being temporally different from each other with respect to the same position on a subject, from an OCT device that detects an OCT signal based on reflection light of measurement light applied to a subject and reference light corresponding to the measurement light, and a calculation unit for calculating motion contrast based on a plurality of OCT signals. The calculation unit selects two or more sets of OCT signals having different time interval between the OCT signals among sets obtained by extracting a plurality of OCT signals out of the three or more OCT signals, and calculates motion contrast for each of the selected two or more sets.

    Optical coherence tomography device

    公开(公告)号:US10718601B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-21

    申请号:US15899575

    申请日:2018-02-20

    申请人: NIDEK CO., LTD.

    摘要: An optical coherence tomography device provided with: an OCT optical system configured to output OCT signal; and an analysis processing unit configured to process the OCT signal and generate motion contrast data of the specimen. The analysis processing unit is provided with: a first image data generation unit configured to process multiple OCT signals to generate first image data representing phase difference information of the multiple OCT signals, and a second image data generation unit configured to process the OCT signal to generate second image data representing amplitude information of the OCT signal. The analysis processing unit generates the motion contrast data based on the phase difference information in the first image data and the amplitude information in the second image data.

    OCT apparatus
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11357399B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-14

    申请号:US16527527

    申请日:2019-07-31

    申请人: NIDEK CO., LTD.

    摘要: An OCT apparatus includes an OCT optical system that has a light splitter splitting light from an OCT light source to light travelling to a measurement light path and light travelling to a reference light path and a detector detecting a spectrum interference signal of measurement light guided to a subject eye through the measurement light path and reference light from the reference light path, and a processing unit that processes the spectrum interference signal to generate OCT data. The processing unit performs at least complementary processing on an overlapping region of a real image and a virtual image in OCT data based on a plurality of OCT data obtained with different optical path lengths when detecting the spectrum interference signal, and generates OCT data subjected to the complementary processing.