3D Optical Coherence Tomography image processing in BISCAP: characterization of biofilm structure and properties.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

BISCAP is a state-of-the-art tool for automatically characterizing biofilm images obtained from Optical Coherence Tomography. Limited availability of other software tools is reported in the field. BISCAP's first version processes 2D images only. Processing 3D images is a problem of greater scientific relevance since it deals with the entire structure of biofilms instead of their 2D slices.

Results

Building on the image-processing principles and algorithms proposed earlier for 2D images, these were adapted to the 3D case, and a more general implementation of BISCAP was developed. The primary goal concerns the extension of the initial methodology to incorporate the depth axis in 3D images; multiple improvements were also made to boost computational performance. The

SUBMITTER: Narciso DAC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10868339 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature