Improved wavelet hierarchical threshold filter method for optical coherence tomography image de-noising

Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences

关键词: Optical coherence tomography;    wavelets;    speckle;   

DOI  :  10.1142/S1793545818500128

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

【 摘 要 】

According to the speckle feature in Optical coherence tomography (OCT), images with speckle indicate not only noise but also signals, an improved wavelet hierarchical threshold filter (IWHTF) method is proposed. At first, a modified hierarchical threshold-selected algorithm is used to prevent signals from being removed by assessing suitable thresholds for different noise levels. Then, an improved wavelet threshold function based on two traditional threshold functions is proposed to trade-off between speckle removing and sharpness degradation. The de-noising results of an OCT finger skin image shows that the IWHTF method obtains better objective evaluation metrics and visual image quality improvement. When α=0.2, β=5.0 and K=1.2, the improved method can achieve 9.58dB improvement in signal-to-noise ratio, with sharpness degraded by 3.81%.

【 授权许可】

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