Title
Sparsity-Aware OCT Volumetric Data Restoration Using Optical Synthesis Model
Abstract
In this study, a novel restoration model for the data of optical coherence tomography (OCT) is proposed. An OCT device acquires a tomographic image of a specimen at the scale of a few micrometers using a near-infrared laser and has been frequently adopted to measure the structures of bio-tissues. In certain applications, OCT devices face the problem of extremely weak reflected light and require the help of image processing to estimate the distribution of reflected light hidden in various noises. OCT identifies tomographic structures by searching for peak interference locations and their intensities. Therefore, the challenge of OCT data restoration involves the problem of identifying the interference function and its deconvolution. In this study, a restoration method is given by reducing the problem to a regularized least-squares problem with a hard constraint for the latent refractive index distributions, and an algorithm is derived using a primal-dual splitting (PDS) framework. The PDS has the advantage of requiring no inverse matrix operation and is able to handle high-dimensional data. The significance of the proposed method is verified through simulations using artificial data, followed by an experiment conducted using actual observation of <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$64 \times 64 \times 5000$</tex-math></inline-formula> sized voxels.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TCI.2022.3183396
IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Image denoising,image restoration,inverse problems,optical coherence tomography,optimization,system identification
Journal
8
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2573-0436
0
0.34
References 
Authors
12
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ruiki Kobayashi100.34
Genki Fujii200.34
Yuta Yoshida300.34
Takeru Ota400.34
Fumiaki Nin500.34
Hiroshi Hibino600.34
Samuel Choi700.34
Shunsuke Ono800.34
Shogo Muramatsu900.34