Effective speckle noise suppression in optical coherence tomography images using nonlocal means denoising filter with double Gaussian anisotropic kernels

J Aum, J Kim, J Jeong - Applied Optics, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Non-local means (NLM) filter is one of the state-of-the-art denoising filters. It exploits the
presence of similar features in an image and averages those similar features to remove …

3-D adaptive nonlinear complex-diffusion despeckling filter

P Rodrigues, R Bernardes - IEEE Transactions on Medical …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work aims to improve the process of speckle noise reduction while preserving edges
and other relevant features through filter expansion from 2-D to 3-D. Despeckling is very …

Automatic cysts detection in optical coherence tomography images

W Wieclawek - … 22nd International Conference Mixed Design of …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The main goal of this work is a presentation of a new algorithm dedicated to cysts detection
in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images. Considered in this paper OCT scans …

3D nonlinear complex-diffusion filter on GPU

P Rodrigues, P Serranho… - … Conference of the IEEE …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ramp preserving 2D nonlinear complex-diffusion filter introduced by Gilboa et al.(2004)
was extended to 3D (Maduro et al., 2012). We propose a graphical processing unit …

[PDF][PDF] OCT Image Stack Alignment: One more important preprocessing step

M Xiao, C Zou, K Sheppard, M Krebs - Proceedings of the BioImage …, 2015 - isg.nist.gov
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an important tool for analyzing small animal models
of ocular disease. As OCT image quality and downstream analysis are affected by speckle …

A new DTI image denoising method based on shearlet shrinkage and complex diffusion

X Zhang, X Liu, Y Ma - … on Image and Signal Processing (CISP), 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The diffusion tensor image (DTI) is clinically polluted by Rician noise, which can bring
serious impacts on tensor calculating, fiber tracking and other post-processing. To decrease …

Implicit method for nonlinear complex diffusion with applications to image denoising

M Oliveira, P Serranho - International Journal of Differential …, 2017 - repositorioaberto.uab.pt
In this paper we focus on the development and implementation of an implicit finite difference
method for solving a complex diffusion differential equation with applications to noise …