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Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) provides valuable insights in ophthalmology, cardiology, and neurology due to high-resolution, cross-sectional images of the retina. One critical task for ophthalmologists using OCT is delineation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Samuel T. M. Ball

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive 3D modality widely used in ophthalmology for imaging the retina. Achieving automated, anatomically coherent retinal layer segmentation on OCT is important for the detection and monitoring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Botond Fazekas , Guilherme Aresta , Dmitrii Lachinov , Sophie Riedl , Julia Mai , Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth , Hrvoje Bogunovic

Holographic optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a powerful imaging technique, but its ability to reveal low-reflectivity features is limited. In this study, we performed holographic OCT by incoherently averaging volumes with changing…

Spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) offers high resolution multidimensional imaging, but generally suffers from defocussing, intensity falloff and shot noise, causing artifacts and image degradation along the imaging depth.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-04 Jonathan H. Mason , Yvonne Reinwald , Ying Yang , Sarah Waters , Alicia El Haj , Pierre O. Bagnaninchi

Monocular depth estimation is a challenging task that predicts the pixel-wise depth from a single 2D image. Current methods typically model this problem as a regression or classification task. We propose DiffusionDepth, a new approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Yiqun Duan , Xianda Guo , Zheng Zhu

Speckle noise has long been an extensively studied problem in medical imaging. In recent years, there have been significant advances in leveraging deep learning methods for noise reduction. Nevertheless, adaptation of supervised learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Deborah Pereg

Speckle is an intrinsic pattern in optical coherence tomography (OCT) that obscures fine image features and degrades effective resolution. In this study, we propose a numerical speckle reduction method based on the dispersed scatterer model…

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Franziska Schirrmacher , Thomas Köhler , Lennart Husvogt , James G. Fujimoto , Joachim Hornegger , Andreas K. Maier

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in applying convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to low-level vision tasks such as denoising and super-resolution. Due to the coherent nature of the image formation process, optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Ashkan Abbasi , Amirhassan Monadjemi , Leyuan Fang , Hossein Rabbani , Yi Zhang

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging is pivotal in diagnosing ophthalmic conditions by providing detailed cross-sectional images of the anterior and posterior segments of the eye. Nonetheless, speckle noise and other imaging artifacts…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Akkidas Noel Prakash , Jahnvi Sai Ganta , Ramaswami Krishnadas , Tin A. Tunc , Satish K Panda

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a powerful biomedical imaging technology that relies on the coherent detection of backscattered light to image tissue morphology in vivo. As a consequence, OCT is susceptible to coherent noise (speckle…

We present a deep neural network to reduce coherent noise in three-dimensional quantitative phase imaging. Inspired by the cycle generative adversarial network, the denoising network was trained to learn a transform between two image…

Longitudinal imaging is capable of capturing the static ana\-to\-mi\-cal structures and the dynamic changes of the morphology resulting from aging or disease progression. Self-supervised learning allows to learn new representation from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-25 Antoine Rivail , Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth , Wolf-Dieter Vogl , Sebastian M. Waldstein , Sophie Riedl , Christoph Grechenig , Zhichao Wu , Hrvoje Bogunović

Optical tomographic cross-sectional images of biological samples were made possible by interferometric imaging techniques such as Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). Owing to its unprecedented view of the sample, OCT has become a gold…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-07-13 Pedro Mecê , Elena Gofas-Salas , Michel Paques , Kate Grieve , Serge Meimon

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a widely used imaging technique in the micrometer regime, which gained accelerating interest in medical imaging in the last twenty years. In up-to-date OCT literature [5,6] certain simplifying…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Leopold Veselka , Lisa Krainz , Leonidas Mindrinos , Wolfgang Drexler , Peter Elbau

Purpose: To develop a deep learning approach to de-noise optical coherence tomography (OCT) B-scans of the optic nerve head (ONH). Methods: Volume scans consisting of 97 horizontal B-scans were acquired through the center of the ONH using a…

Nosie is an important cause of low quality Optical coherence tomography (OCT) image. The neural network model based on Convolutional neural networks(CNNs) has demonstrated its excellent performance in image denoising. However, OCT image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-03 Jie Du , Xujian Yang , Kecheng Jin , Xuanzheng Qi , Hu Chen

Inverse scattering in optical coherence tomography (OCT) seeks to recover both structural images and intrinsic tissue optical properties, including refractive index, scattering coefficient, and anisotropy. This inverse problem is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jinglun Yu , Yaning Wang , Wenhan Guo , Yuan Gao , Yu Sun , Jin U. Kang

In this chapter a general mathematical model of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is presented on the basis of the electromagnetic theory. OCT produces high resolution images of the inner structure of biological tissues. Images are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Peter Elbau , Leonidas Mindrinos , Otmar Scherzer

Diffusion models generate new samples by progressively decreasing the noise from the initially provided random distribution. This inference procedure generally utilizes a trained neural network numerous times to obtain the final output,…