OCT signal processing device and recording medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11452452-B2
Application number	US-201716068452-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 5, 2017
Priority date	Jan 7, 2016
Publication date	Sep 27, 2022
Grant date	Sep 27, 2022

Abstract

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.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An optical coherence tomography (OCT) signal processing device configured to process an OCT signal, comprising:
a central processing unit (CPU) configured to:
acquire three or more OCT signals, each of the three or more OCT signals being temporally different from each other with respect to a same position on a subject, from an OCT device that detects OCT signals based on reflection light of measurement light applied to the subject and reference light corresponding to the measurement light;
extract a plurality of OCT signals from the three or more OCT signals;

select two or more sets of OCT signals from the plurality of OCT signals, the two or more sets of OCT signals having different time intervals, and calculate motion contrast for each of the selected two or more sets,
wherein the two or more sets of OCT signals having different time intervals include a temporally separated set of extracted OCT signals which are not temporally adjacent, and

wherein the CPU is further configured to synthesize motion contrasts calculated for each of the two or more sets.

2. The OCT signal processing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the CPU is further configured to synthesize the motion contrasts calculated for each of the two or more sets based on an evaluation index relating to the motion contrast from among motion contrasts calculated for each of the two or more sets.

3. The OCT signal processing device according claim 1 ,
wherein CPU is further configured to calculate motion contrast for each of all sets that is able to be selected from among the three or more OCT signals.

4. The OCT signal processing device according claim 1 ,
wherein the CPU is further configured to synthesize motion contrasts calculated for each of the two or more sets through statistical processing.

5. The OCT signal processing device according to claim 4 ,
wherein the CPU is further configured to assign weights to the statistical processing according to lengths of time intervals of the two or more sets.

6. The OCT signal processing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the CPU is further configured to change a calculation method of motion contrast in each set according to a length of the time interval.

7. An optical coherence tomography (OCT) signal processing device configured to process OCT signals, comprising:
an OCT device for detecting OCT signals based on reflection light of measurement light applied to a subject and reference light corresponding to the measurement light; and
a central processing unit (CPU) configured to:
acquire three or more OCT signals, each of the three or more OCT signals being temporally different from each other with respect to a same position on the subject from the OCT device;
extract a plurality of OCT signals from the three or more OCT signals;

select two or more sets of OCT signals from the plurality of OCT signals, the two or more sets of OCT signals having different time intervals, and calculate motion contrast for each of the selected two or more sets,
wherein the two or more sets of OCT signals having different time intervals include a temporally separated set of extracted OCT signals which are not temporally adjacent, and
wherein the CPU is further configured to synthesize motion contrasts calculated for each of the two or more sets.

8. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing an optical coherence tomography (OCT) signal processing program configured to be executed in an OCT signal processing device that processes OCT signals, the program being configured to be executed by a processor of the OCT signal processing device and cause the OCT signal processing device to perform:
acquisition of three or more OCT signals, each of the three or more OCT signals being temporally different from each other with respect to a 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;
extraction of a plurality of OCT signals from the three or more OCT signals;
selection of two or more sets of OCT signals from the plurality of OCT signals, the two or more sets of OCT signals having different time intervals and calculation of motion contrast for each of the selected two or more sets respectively,
wherein the two or more sets of OCT signals having different time intervals include a temporally separated set of extracted OCT signals which are not temporally adjacent, and
wherein the CPU is further configured to synthesize motion contrasts calculated for each of the two or more sets.

9. The OCT signal processing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the CPU is further configured to select a set of OCT signals having a time interval other than a shortest time interval.

10. The OCT signal processing device according to claim 1 , wherein a first set of OCT signals included in the two or more sets of OCT signals is configured by a plurality of OCT signals having a first time interval, a second set of OCT signals included in the two or more sets of OCT signals is configured by a plurality of OCT signals having a second time interval, and the first interval and the second interval are different from each other at a ratio of one to an integer of two or more.

Assignees

• Nidek Kk

Inventors

• Takeno Naoki
• Hanebuchi Masaaki
• Furuuchi Yasuhiro
• Namiki Hajime

Classifications

• G06T2207/10016

  Video; Image sequence · CPC title

• G06T5/50

  using two or more images, e.g. averaging or subtraction · CPC title

• A61B5/0066 Primary

  Optical coherence imaging · CPC title

• G06T2207/10101

  Optical tomography; Optical coherence tomography [OCT] · CPC title

• G06T2207/30041

  Eye; Retina; Ophthalmic · CPC title