Speckle Noise Reduction in Optical Coherence Tomography Using 2D Curvelet Based Dictionary Learning

Mahdad Esmaeili, Alireza Mehri Dehnavi, Hossein Rabbani, Fedra Hajizadeh

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The process of interpretation of high-speed optical coherence tomography (OCT) images is restricted due to the large speckle noise. To address this problem, this paper proposes a new method using two-dimensional (2D) curvelet-based K-SVD algorithm for speckle noise reduction and contrast enhancement of intra-retinal layers of 2D spectral-domain OCT images. For this purpose, we take curvelet transform of the noisy image. Then, noisy sub-bands of different scales and rotations are separately thresholded with an adaptive data-driven thresholding method, then, each thresholded sub-band is denoised based on K-SVD dictionary learning with a variable size initial dictionary to be dependent on the size of curvelet coefficients’ matrix in each sub-band. We also modify each coefficient matrix to enhance intra-retinal layers, with noise suppression at the same time. We demonstrate the ability of the proposed algorithm in speckle noise reduction of 100 publically available OCT B-scans with and without non-neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and improvement of contrast-to-noise ratio from 1.27 to 5.12 and mean-to-standard deviation ratio from 3.20 to 14.41 are obtained.

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Curvelet transform; dictionary learning; optical coherence tomography; speckle noise

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