Speckle reduction in optical coherence tomography by image registration and matrix completion

Jun Cheng, Lixin Duan, Damon Wing Kee Wong, Dacheng Tao, Masahiro Akiba, Jiang Liu

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Abstract

Speckle noise is problematic in optical coherence tomography (OCT). With the fast scan rate, swept source OCT scans the same position in the retina for multiple times rapidly and computes an average image from the multiple scans for speckle reduction. However, the eye movement poses some challenges. In this paper, we propose a new method for speckle reduction from multiply-scanned OCT slices. The proposed method applies a preliminary speckle reduction on the OCT slices and then registers them using a global alignment followed by a local alignment based on fast iterative diamond search. After that, low rank matrix completion using bilateral random projection is utilized to iteratively estimate the noise and recover the underlying clean image. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves average contrast to noise ratio 15.65, better than 13.78 by the baseline method used currently in swept source OCT devices. The technology can be embedded into current OCT machines to enhance the image quality for subsequent analysis.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2014 - 17th International Conference, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages162-169
Number of pages8
EditionPART 1
ISBN (Print)9783319104034
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event17th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2014 - Boston, MA, United States
Duration: 14 Sept 201418 Sept 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume8673 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference17th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoston, MA
Period14/09/1418/09/14

Keywords

  • Speckle
  • bilateral random projection
  • matrix completion

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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