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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

Due to its noninvasive character, optical coherence tomography (OCT) has become a popular diagnostic method in clinical settings. However, the low-coherence interferometric imaging procedure is inevitably contaminated by heavy speckle…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Yongqiang Huang , Wenjun Xia , Zexin Lu , Yan Liu , Hu Chen , Jiliu Zhou , Leyuan Fang , Yi Zhang

Ultrasound is widely used in medical diagnostics allowing for accessible and powerful imaging but suffers from resolution limitations due to diffraction and the finite aperture of the imaging system, which restricts diagnostic use. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Felix Duelmer , Walter Simson , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Magdalena Wysocki , Angelos Karlas , Nassir Navab

Restoration of digital images from their degraded measurements has always been a problem of great theoretical and practical importance in numerous applications of imaging sciences. A specific solution to the problem of image restoration is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-04-09 Elad Shaked , Oleg Michailovich

Automatic detection of faults in optical fibers is an active area of research that plays a significant role in the design of reliable and stable optical networks. A fiber measurement system that combines automated data acquisition and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-05 Yuneisy Garcia Guzman , Felipe Calliari , Gustavo C. Amaral , Michael Lunglmayr

Deconvolution is the most commonly used image processing method to remove the blur caused by the point-spread-function (PSF) in optical imaging systems. While this method has been successful in deblurring, it suffers from several…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-10 Huangxuan Zhao , Ziwen Ke , Ningbo Chen , Ke Li , Lidai Wang , Xiaojing Gong , Wei Zheng , Liang Song , Zhicheng Liu , Dong Liang , Chengbo Liu

Bregman iterations are known to yield excellent results for denoising, deblurring and compressed sensing tasks, but so far this technique has rarely been used for other image processing problems. In this paper we give a thorough description…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Laurent Hoeltgen , Michael Breuß

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has proven to be a powerful technique for studying tissue morphology in ophthalmology, cardiology, and endomicroscopy. Its performance is limited by the fundamental trade-off between the imaging…

Optics · Physics 2008-02-27 Keisuke Goda , Daniel R. Solli , Bahram Jalali

A resolution enhancement technique for optical coherence tomography (OCT), based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), was developed and investigated. GANs have been previously used for resolution enhancement of photography and optical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Kaicheng Liang , Xinyu Liu , Si Chen , Jun Xie , Wei Qing Lee , Linbo Liu , Hwee Kuan Lee

Quantum Optical Coherence Tomography (Q-OCT) uses quantum properties of light to provide several advantages over its classical counterpart, OCT: it achieves a twice better axial resolution with the same spectral bandwidth and it is immune…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-14 Sylwia M. Kolenderska , Piotr Kolenderski

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a prevalent imaging technique for retina. However, it is affected by multiplicative speckle noise that can degrade the visibility of essential anatomical structures, including blood vessels and tissue…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 Dewei Hu , Joseph D. Malone , Yigit Atay , Yuankai K. Tao , Ipek Oguz

Diffusion MRI is a well established imaging modality providing a powerful way to probe the structure of the white matter non-invasively. Despite its potential, the intrinsic long scan times of these sequences have hampered their use in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2013-12-31 Alessandro Daducci , Dimitri Van De Ville , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Yves Wiaux

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is pervasive in both the research and clinical practice of Ophthalmology. However, OCT images are strongly corrupted by noise, limiting their interpretation. Current OCT denoisers leverage assumptions on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-19 Guillaume Gisbert , Neel Dey , Hiroshi Ishikawa , Joel Schuman , James Fishbaugh , Guido Gerig

In this work we propose a ResNet-based universal method for speckle reduction in optical coherence tomography (OCT) images. The proposed model contains 3 main modules: Convolution-BN-ReLU, Branch and Residual module. Unlike traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Cai Ning , Shi Fei , Hu Dianlin , Chen Yang

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

This dissertation relates to the transition of the state of the art of swept source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) systems to a new realm in which the image acquisition speed is improved by an order of magnitude. With the aid of a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-21 Amir Tofighi Zavareh

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) image denoising is a fundamental problem as OCT images suffer from multiplicative speckle noise, resulting in poor visibility of retinal layers. The traditional denoising methods consider specific…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-21 Arka Saha , Sourya Sengupta

We study the problem of deconvolution for light-sheet microscopy, where the data is corrupted by spatially varying blur and a combination of Poisson and Gaussian noise. The spatial variation of the point spread function (PSF) of a…

Images acquired with a telescope are blurred and corrupted by noise. The blurring is usually modeled by a convolution with the Point Spread Function and the noise by Additive Gaussian Noise. Recovering the observed image is an ill-posed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Fadi Nammour , Morgan A. Schmitz , Fred Maurice Ngolè Mboula , Jean-Luc Starck , Julien N. Girard

Although much research has been devoted to the problem of restoring Poissonian images, namely in the fields of medical and astronomical imaging, applying the state of the art regularizers (such as those based on wavelets or total variation)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-05-01 Mario A. T. Figueiredo , Jose M. Bioucas-Dias