Application of Improved Homogeneity Similarity-Based Denoising in Optical Coherence Tomography Retinal Images.

Image denoising is a fundamental preprocessing step of image processing in many applications developed for optical coherence tomography (OCT) retinal imaging-a high-resolution modality for evaluating disease in the eye. To make a homogeneity similarity-based image denoising method more suitable for...

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Publicado en:Journal of Digital Imaging Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 346 - 362
Autores principales: Chen, Qiang, Sisternes, Luis, Leng, Theodore, Rubin, Daniel
Formato: diagnostic images equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Jun2015
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          Chen, Qiang
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          Leng, Theodore
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          Retina Radiography
          Tomography, Optical Coherence
          Image Processing, Computer Assisted Methods
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      ab: Image denoising is a fundamental preprocessing step of image processing in many applications developed for optical coherence tomography (OCT) retinal imaging-a high-resolution modality for evaluating disease in the eye. To make a homogeneity similarity-based image denoising method more suitable for OCT image removal, we improve it by considering the noise and retinal characteristics of OCT images in two respects: (1) median filtering preprocessing is used to make the noise distribution of OCT images more suitable for patch-based methods; (2) a rectangle neighborhood and region restriction are adopted to accommodate the horizontal stretching of retinal structures when observed in OCT images. As a performance measurement of the proposed technique, we tested the method on real and synthetic noisy retinal OCT images and compared the results with other well-known spatial denoising methods, including bilateral filtering, five partial differential equation (PDE)-based methods, and three patch-based methods. Our results indicate that our proposed method seems suitable for retinal OCT imaging denoising, and that, in general, patch-based methods can achieve better visual denoising results than point-based methods in this type of imaging, because the image patch can better represent the structured information in the images than a single pixel. However, the time complexity of the patch-based methods is substantially higher than that of the others.
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