Revealing speckle obscured living human retinal cells with artificial intelligence assisted adaptive optics optical coherence tomography

Author:

Das VineetaORCID,Zhang Furu,Bower Andrew J.ORCID,Li JoanneORCID,Liu TaoORCID,Aguilera NancyORCID,Alvisio Bruno,Liu ZhuolinORCID,Hammer Daniel X.ORCID,Tam JohnnyORCID

Abstract

Abstract Background In vivo imaging of the human retina using adaptive optics optical coherence tomography (AO-OCT) has transformed medical imaging by enabling visualization of 3D retinal structures at cellular-scale resolution, including the retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells, which are essential for maintaining visual function. However, because noise inherent to the imaging process (e.g., speckle) makes it difficult to visualize RPE cells from a single volume acquisition, a large number of 3D volumes are typically averaged to improve contrast, substantially increasing the acquisition duration and reducing the overall imaging throughput. Methods Here, we introduce parallel discriminator generative adversarial network (P-GAN), an artificial intelligence (AI) method designed to recover speckle-obscured cellular features from a single AO-OCT volume, circumventing the need for acquiring a large number of volumes for averaging. The combination of two parallel discriminators in P-GAN provides additional feedback to the generator to more faithfully recover both local and global cellular structures. Imaging data from 8 eyes of 7 participants were used in this study. Results We show that P-GAN not only improves RPE cell contrast by 3.5-fold, but also improves the end-to-end time required to visualize RPE cells by 99-fold, thereby enabling large-scale imaging of cells in the living human eye. RPE cell spacing measured across a large set of AI recovered images from 3 participants were in agreement with expected normative ranges. Conclusions The results demonstrate the potential of AI assisted imaging in overcoming a key limitation of RPE imaging and making it more accessible in a routine clinical setting.

Funder

Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health, National Eye Institute

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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