Adaptive incremental method for strain estimation in phase-sensitive optical coherence elastography.

We proposed an adaptive incremental method for the cumulative strain estimation in phase-sensitive optical coherence elastography. The method firstly counts the amount of phase noise points by mapping a binary noise map. After the noise threshold value is preset, the interframe interval is adaptively adjusted in terms of the phase noise ratio. Finally, the efficient estimation of cumulative strain is implemented by reducing the cumulative number. Since the level of phase noise is related to the different strain rates in accordance with the speckle decorrelation, the proposed method can estimate the large strains with high computation efficiency as well as signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) enhancement in nonlinear change of sample deformations. Real experiments of visualizing polymerization shrinkage with nonlinear change of deformations were performed to prove the superiority of adaptive incremental method in estimating the large strains. The proposed method expands the practicability of the incremental method in more complex scenes.

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