US 20130182895A1

(19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2013/0182895 A1
Touzov et a].
(54) SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL
COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY ANALYSIS

(43) Pub. Date:

(52) US. Cl.

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cPc ........... .. G06T 11/003 (2013.01); G06T 7/0051

AND DATA MINING SYSTEMS AND

RELATED METHODS AND COMPUTER

(2013,01)
USPc ........................................................ .. 382/103

PROGRAM PRODUCTS

(71) Applicant. Bloptlgen, Inc., Morrrsvrlle, NC (U S)

(72) Inventors: Igor Touzov, Cary, NC (US); Bradley A. Bower, Hillsborough, NC (US); Eric L. Buckland, Hickory, NC (U S)

(57)

ABSTRACT

(73) Assigneer Bioptigen, Inc M0rIiSVi11e,NC (Us)

Methods for analyzing images acquired using an image acquisition system include receiving a plurality of images
from at least one image acquisition system; selecting at least a portion of a set of images for analysis using at least one attribute of image metadata; selecting at least one method for deriving quantitative information from the at least a portion of the set of images; processing the selected at least a portion of
the set of images With the selected at least one method for

(21) App1.No.: 13/664,785

(22) Filed: Oct.31, 2012
Related US Application Data

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Provisional application No. 61/576,206, ?led on Dec. 15 201 1' Publication Classi?cation

(51)

Int, Cl, G06T 11/00

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deriving quantitative information to generate an intermediate set of quantitative data associated With the at least a portion of the set of images; and storing the intermediate set of quanti tative data and the metadata in a reference database, the reference database including intermediate sets of quantitative data and associated metadata for images associated With a

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