Title
Noise reduction in OCT skin images
Abstract
OCT skin images suffer from artifacts. Speckle is the main artifact while the other one is called background noise. In this study, we propose an algorithm that significantly reduces the background noise before applying a speckle reduction method. The results show that the diagnostically relevant features in the images become clearer after applying the proposed method. We used sub-pixel weighted median filtering for speckle reduction. The results from background noise removal in combination with the proposed speckle reduction algorithm show a significant improvement in the clarity of diagnostically relevant features in in-vivo human skin images.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1117/12.2255548
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Optical coherence tomography,Speckle reduction,filtering,image processing,image enhancement,noise removal
Noise reduction,Computer vision,Optical coherence tomography,Median filter,Background noise,Speckle pattern,Optics,Artificial intelligence,Speckle noise,Speckle reduction,Weighted median filtering,Physics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10137
0277-786X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zahra Turani100.34
Emad Fatemizadeh211713.86
Saba Adabi371.39
Darius Mehregan401.35
Steven Daveluy501.01
Mohammadreza Nasiriavanaki6275.27