Vascular plaque detection using texture based segmentation of optical coherence tomography images
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death in Canada. Atherosclerosis is considered the primary cause for cardiovascular disease. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) provides a means to minimally invasive imaging and assessment of textural features of atherosclerotic plaque. However, detecting atherosclerotic plaque by visual inspection from Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images is usually difficult. Therefore we developed unsupervised segmentation algorithms to automatically detect atherosclerosis plaque from OCT images. We used three different clustering methods to identify atherosclerotic plaque automatically from OCT images. Our method involves data preprocessing of raw OCT images, feature selection and texture feature extraction using the Spatial Gray Level Dependence Matrix method (SGLDM), and the application of three different clustering techniques: K-means, Fuzzy C-means and Gustafson-Kessel algorithms to segment the plaque regions from OCT images and to map the cluster regions (background, vascular tissue, OCT degraded signal region and Atherosclerosis plaque) from the feature-space back to the original preprocessed OCT image. We validated our results by comparing our segmented OCT images with actual photographic images of vascular tissue with plaque.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".