Wavelet denoising of multiframe optical coherence tomography data using similarity measures. Issue 1 (1st January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Habib, Wajiha; Sarwar, Tabinda; Siddiqui, Adil Masood; Touqir, Imran
• Is Part Of: IET image processing. Volume 11:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 64
• Page End: 79
• Publication Date: 2017-01-01
• Subjects: optical tomography -- wavelet transforms -- speckle -- correlation methods -- optimisation -- image denoising; Pearson correlation coefficient -- noise reduction -- structural contents -- image denoising -- optimisation criterion -- image quality measure -- SSIM -- stationary wavelet transform -- structural similarity index -- wavelet‐based denoising -- image degradation -- speckle noise -- similarity measures -- multiframe optical coherence tomography data; Image processing -- Periodicals; 621.36705
• DOI: 10.1049/iet-ipr.2016.0160
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1751-9659

Abstract

Abstract : Speckle noise is the main cause of image degradation in optical coherence tomography, which makes denoising an essential process to obtain quality images. This study proposes a wavelet‐based denoising technique in which detail coefficients are assigned weights using similarity measures of Pearson's correlation coefficient and structural similarity index (SSIM). Stationary wavelet transform is used for SSIM which is an image quality measure is used as optimisation criterion to denoise images in this study. Procedure of weight computation is discussed in detail. Average of these detailed components is used to denoise the images. Comparison of proposed technique with the existing techniques has been carried out at length. Extensive qualitative and quantitative analysis reveal that the proposed technique is efficient and performs better in terms of noise reduction while maintaining the structural contents of the image.