Performance analysis of despeckling filters for retinal optical coherence tomography images

Abstract

This paper presents performance analysis of different despeckling filters used for denoising of the optical coherence tomography (OCT) Images. Currently OCT imaging is one of the best technique used in biomedical application to detect the abnormality in the human eye. OCT images normally suffer from granular patterns called speckle noise. Speckle noise is an inherent property of an OCT images which affects the visual quality of the images, hence difficult to diagnosis the patients. Therefore, speckle noise reduction from the OCT images is an important prerequisite, whenever OCT imaging is used for diagnosis. Here, a comparative analysis of different despeckling filters used for the denoising of OCT images is presented. The speckle noise intensity is depends on the various imaging system parameters and on the different structure representations used for the image tissues. A denoising technique is to be designed in such a way that it should be able to reduce the speckle noise from the OCT images while preserve the tissues and fine details of the images. � 2018 IEEE.