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Rapid Measurement of Epidermal Thickness in OCT Images of Skin via Nature

Epidermal thickness (ET) changes are associated with several skin diseases. To measure ET, segmentation of optical coherence tomography (OCT) images is essential; manual segmentation is very time-consuming and requires training and some understanding of how to interpret OCT images.

Fast results are important in order to analyze ET over different regions of skin in rapid succession to complete a clinical examination and enable the physician to discuss results with the patient in real time. The well-known CNN-graph search (CNN-GS) methodology delivers highly accurate results, but at a high computational cost.

Our objective was to build a computational core, based on CNN-GS, able to accurately segment OCT skin images in real time. We accomplished this by fine-tuning the hyperparameters, testing a range of speed-up algorithms including pruning and quantization, designing a novel pixel-skipping process, and implementing the final product with efficient use of core and threads on a multicore central processing unit (CPU).

We name this product CNN-GS-skin. The method identifies two defined boundaries on OCT skin images in order to measure ET.

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