Abstract

We present a novel scheme for blind suppression of noise from a sequence of optical coherence tomography (OCT) images, such as those collected on a real-time OCT imaging system. In contrast to virtually all existing approaches to OCT denoising, our technique is specifically aimed at collections of images and is able to exploit the correlations among those images. The proposed method approximates the optimal linear denoising operator for log-transformed data using a 2-D discrete wavelet transform (DWT) to decorrelate in space and the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), or an estimated transform, to decorrelate in time. Decorrelated coefficients are then denoised and converted back to the image domain to produce denoised OCT images. Real-time OCT data processed with this technique shows significant reduction in noise.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - Proceedings
PagesII1148-II1151
StatePublished - 2006
Event2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2006 - Toulouse, France
Duration: May 14 2006May 19 2006

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Other

Other2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2006
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityToulouse
Period5/14/065/19/06

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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