Speckle noise reduction for optical coherence tomography

S. H. Xiang; Liang Zhou; Joseph M. Schmitt

doi:10.1117/12.297921

13 January 1998 Speckle noise reduction for optical coherence tomography

S. H. Xiang, Liang Zhou, Joseph M. Schmitt

Proceedings Volume 3196, Optical and Imaging Techniques for Biomonitoring III; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.297921
Event: BiOS Europe '97, 1997, San Remo, Italy

Abstract

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has shown great promise for non-invasive and contact-less imaging of subsurface soft tissues. However, the problem of low image contrast caused by speckle noise has limited its applications in diagnosis. This paper present a wavelet-based method designed to improve OCT image contrast by reducing speckle noise. After transforming the image into a set of sub-images with different resolution levels in wavelet domain, we threshold high-frequency coefficients nonlinearity in horizontal, vertical, and diagonal directions. The experimental results show that wavelet processing suppresses speckle noise in OCT images of soft tissue effectively, while maintaining the sharpness of image features.

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S. H. Xiang, Liang Zhou, and Joseph M. Schmitt "Speckle noise reduction for optical coherence tomography", Proc. SPIE 3196, Optical and Imaging Techniques for Biomonitoring III, (13 January 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.297921

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