Title
Deblurring sequential ocular images from multi-spectral imaging (MSI) via mutual information.
Abstract
Multi-spectral imaging (MSI) produces a sequence of spectral images to capture the inner structure of different species, which was recently introduced into ocular disease diagnosis. However, the quality of MSI images can be significantly degraded by motion blur caused by the inevitable saccades and exposure time required for maintaining a sufficiently high signal-to-noise ratio. This degradation may confuse an ophthalmologist, reduce the examination quality, or defeat various image analysis algorithms. We propose an early work specially on deblurring sequential MSI images, which is distinguished from many of the current image deblurring techniques by resolving the blur kernel simultaneously for all the images in an MSI sequence. It is accomplished by incorporating several a priori constraints including the sharpness of the latent clear image, the spatial and temporal smoothness of the blur kernel and the similarity between temporally-neighboring images in MSI sequence. Specifically, we model the similarity between MSI images with mutual information considering the different wavelengths used for capturing different images in MSI sequence. The optimization of the proposed approach is based on a multi-scale framework and stepwise optimization strategy. Experimental results from 22 MSI sequences validate that our approach outperforms several state-of-the-art techniques in natural image deblurring.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/s11517-017-1743-6
Med. Biol. Engineering and Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multi-spectral imaging,Deblurring,Image processing,Image analysis
Kernel (linear algebra),Computer vision,Deblurring,A priori and a posteriori,Motion blur,Image processing,Electronic engineering,Mutual information,Artificial intelligence,Multi spectral,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
56
6
1741-0444
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.41
9
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jian Lian13711.49
Yuanjie Zheng267155.01
Wanzhen Jiao381.45
Fang Yan483.23
Bojun Zhao571.10