Adaptive Speckle Reduction in OCT Volume Data Based on Block-Matching and 3-D Filtering
An adaptive speckle denoising method called Volume-BM3D is developed for optical coherence tomography (OCT) volume data processing, including an adaptive noise level estimation algorithm and a denoising strategy based on block-matching and filtering in a highly sparse local 3-D transform domain. Noise level estimation, an important step for denoising, is obtained from estimating signal fluctuations among neighboring A-Scans. Unlike 2-D denoising approaches, the Volume-BM3D considers the similarities of tissue structures either in a single 2-D image or in a volume data simultaneously. It not only effectively suppresses speckle noise, but also improves the visualization of small morphological features, such as ...
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