A Method for Thiarubrine Canals Extraction in Optical Coherence Tomography Images of Schkuhria Pinnata Roots

摘要

This paper presents a method of automatic recognition of thiarubrine canals in images obtained with Optical Coherence Tomography technique. The plant material was the Ri-transformed root culture of South American herb Schkuhria pinnata. The series of highresolution OCT B-scans for the study were collected using custom made experimental system operating light of 800 nm central wavelength. The method reduces significant artefacts and uses region growing approach adapted to specific features of OCT images. Results of the identification have been compared with data obtained by specialist for selected B-scans. The algorithm accuracy was also verified using a simple numeric phantom.