1. About OCTant

OCTant (Optical Coherence Tomography analysis tools) is a suite of tools for OCT analysis in Python.

Prior to v0.3, OCTant was known as OCT-tools.

Documentation available at: readthedocs.

1.1. About the logo

Typeface is Courier New bold common in many programming environments and the bold emphasis is usually kept for reserved words. An octant is one of the 8 regions of a volumetric space partitioned by 3 orthogonal planes. A segmentation (the most relevant operation of OCTant) is also a partition of a space, and OCTant is capable of handle OCT volumes (collection of scans, the are planes usually orthogonal, A-scans, B-scans and C-scans).

1.2. Functionality

Currently, the following operations are supported: * Flattening: Corrects retinal curvature using a plynomial fit to reflective RPE layer. * Stitching / Mosaicing: Permits stitching together several retinal images (usually taken at different angles) to create a larger retinal image * Profiling: This is automatically “tracked”. The intensity profile of the scan is reproduced “side by side” to the scan * Segmentation: A very naive retinal layers segmentation algorithm (with let’s be honest, still very disappointing performance). We hope to improve this soon. * (Manual) Edit segmentation: Still rudimentary, but some operations to manually edit a segmentation whether by class of interest (COI) or region of interest (ROI).