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SUBMITTER: Kang D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4518273 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kang DongYel D Wang Alex A Volgger Veronika V Chen Zhongping Z Wong Brian J F BJ
Journal of biomedical optics 20150701 7
Detection of an early stage of subglottic edema is vital for airway management and prevention of stenosis, a life-threatening condition in critically ill neonates. As an observer for the task of diagnosing edema in vivo, we investigated spatiotemporal correlation (STC) of full-range optical coherence tomography (OCT) images acquired in the rabbit airway with experimentally simulated edema. Operating the STC observer on OCT images generates STC coefficients as test statistics for the statistical ...[more]