Adaptive-weighted bilateral filtering for optical coherence tomography

N. Anantrasirichai, Lindsay Nicholson, James E. Morgan, Irina Erchova, Alin Achim

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Abstract

This paper presents an image enhancement method for retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT) images. Raw OCT images contain a large amount of speckle which causes images to be grainy and very low contrast. The raw OCT images thus need to be processed before any clinical interpretation is made. We propose a novel method to remove speckle, while preserving useful information contained in each retinal layer. The process starts with multi-scale despeckling based on a dual-tree complex wavelet transform (DT-CWT). Then, we further enhance the OCT image through a smoothing process that uses a novel adaptive-weighted bilateral filter (AWBF). This offers the desirable property of preserving texture within the OCT images. Glaucoma classification results confirm that our method can significantly enhance the clinical usefulness of OCT images.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2013 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2013 - Proceedings
Pages1110-1114
Number of pages5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2013
Event2013 20th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2013 - Melbourne, VIC, United Kingdom
Duration: 15 Sept 201318 Sept 2013

Conference

Conference2013 20th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityMelbourne, VIC
Period15/09/1318/09/13

Keywords

  • bilateral filter
  • despeckling
  • DT-CWT
  • image enhancement

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