Title
Cardiac-Gated Slit Lamp Videography As A Novel Approach To Assessing A Microcirculatory Network
Abstract
In this article we describe the development of a system that is designed to image and in turn, allow characterization of the microcirculation in conjunctiva. To characterise the blood flow the system simultaneously captures high quality imagery alongside information on the cardiac cycle, using a multimodal image and biosignal acquisition approach. Images are captured using a smartphone camera attached, via a bespoke adapter, to a 40x magnification slit lamp. Images are recorded as videos at a resolution of up to approximately 1920 x 1080 pixels per frame (i.e. 1080k) and sampled at 60 frames per second. Information on the cardiac cycle is captured using a phonocardiogram device. In order to allow time synchronisation of the video with the phonocardiogram, the phonocardiogram output signal is fed via a custom adapter to the audio input of the smartphone video recording device. This allows for the phonocardiogram to be time synchronised in the audio layer of the video file.This software system provides the opportunity for cardiac gated assessment of a readily obtainable microvascular network, namely the conjunctival vasculature.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.22489/CinC.2017.138-248
2017 COMPUTING IN CARDIOLOGY (CINC)
Field
DocType
Volume
Phonocardiogram,Computer vision,Synchronization,Videography,Computer science,Adapter (computing),Pixel,Frame rate,Artificial intelligence,Slit lamp,Biosignal
Conference
44
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2325-8861
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paul F. Brennan100.34
Dewar D. Finlay28722.60
Mark S. Spence300.34
Agnes Awuah400.34
McLaughlin, J.5411.37
Johnny Moore600.34
Andrew Nesbit700.34
Emanuele Trucco81236116.32
Ruixuan Wang910915.69
Tara Moore1000.34