QuaSI: Quantile Sparse Image Prior for Spatio-Temporal Denoising of Retinal OCT Data

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) enables high-resolution and non-invasive 3D imaging of the human retina but is inherently impaired by speckle noise. This paper introduces a spatio-temporal denoising algorithm for OCT data on a B-scan level using a nove...

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Main Authors: Schirrmacher, Franziska, Köhler, Thomas, Husvogt, Lennart, Fujimoto, James G., Hornegger, Joachim, Maier, Andreas K.
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Language:English
Published: Springer International Publishing 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/137948
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author Schirrmacher, Franziska
Köhler, Thomas
Husvogt, Lennart
Fujimoto, James G.
Hornegger, Joachim
Maier, Andreas K.
author_facet Schirrmacher, Franziska
Köhler, Thomas
Husvogt, Lennart
Fujimoto, James G.
Hornegger, Joachim
Maier, Andreas K.
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description © Springer International Publishing AG 2017. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) enables high-resolution and non-invasive 3D imaging of the human retina but is inherently impaired by speckle noise. This paper introduces a spatio-temporal denoising algorithm for OCT data on a B-scan level using a novel quantile sparse image (QuaSI) prior. To remove speckle noise while preserving image structures of diagnostic relevance, we implement our QuaSI prior via median filter regularization coupled with a Huber data fidelity model in a variational approach. For efficient energy minimization, we develop an alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) scheme using a linearization of median filtering. Our spatio-temporal method can handle both, denoising of single B-scans and temporally consecutive B-scans, to gain volumetric OCT data with enhanced signal-to-noise ratio. Our algorithm based on 4 B-scans only achieved comparable performance to averaging 13 B-scans and outperformed other current denoising methods.
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spelling mit-1721.1/1379482021-11-10T03:01:05Z QuaSI: Quantile Sparse Image Prior for Spatio-Temporal Denoising of Retinal OCT Data Schirrmacher, Franziska Köhler, Thomas Husvogt, Lennart Fujimoto, James G. Hornegger, Joachim Maier, Andreas K. © Springer International Publishing AG 2017. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) enables high-resolution and non-invasive 3D imaging of the human retina but is inherently impaired by speckle noise. This paper introduces a spatio-temporal denoising algorithm for OCT data on a B-scan level using a novel quantile sparse image (QuaSI) prior. To remove speckle noise while preserving image structures of diagnostic relevance, we implement our QuaSI prior via median filter regularization coupled with a Huber data fidelity model in a variational approach. For efficient energy minimization, we develop an alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) scheme using a linearization of median filtering. Our spatio-temporal method can handle both, denoising of single B-scans and temporally consecutive B-scans, to gain volumetric OCT data with enhanced signal-to-noise ratio. Our algorithm based on 4 B-scans only achieved comparable performance to averaging 13 B-scans and outperformed other current denoising methods. 2021-11-09T16:10:19Z 2021-11-09T16:10:19Z 2017 2019-06-26T15:53:02Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 0302-9743 1611-3349 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/137948 Schirrmacher, Franziska, Köhler, Thomas, Husvogt, Lennart, Fujimoto, James G., Hornegger, Joachim et al. 2017. "QuaSI: Quantile Sparse Image Prior for Spatio-Temporal Denoising of Retinal OCT Data." en 10.1007/978-3-319-66185-8_10 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Springer International Publishing arXiv
spellingShingle Schirrmacher, Franziska
Köhler, Thomas
Husvogt, Lennart
Fujimoto, James G.
Hornegger, Joachim
Maier, Andreas K.
QuaSI: Quantile Sparse Image Prior for Spatio-Temporal Denoising of Retinal OCT Data
title QuaSI: Quantile Sparse Image Prior for Spatio-Temporal Denoising of Retinal OCT Data
title_full QuaSI: Quantile Sparse Image Prior for Spatio-Temporal Denoising of Retinal OCT Data
title_fullStr QuaSI: Quantile Sparse Image Prior for Spatio-Temporal Denoising of Retinal OCT Data
title_full_unstemmed QuaSI: Quantile Sparse Image Prior for Spatio-Temporal Denoising of Retinal OCT Data
title_short QuaSI: Quantile Sparse Image Prior for Spatio-Temporal Denoising of Retinal OCT Data
title_sort quasi quantile sparse image prior for spatio temporal denoising of retinal oct data
url https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/137948
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