Improved adaptive complex diffusion despeckling filter

Bernardes, Rui; Maduro, Cristina; Serranho, Pedro; Araújo, Adérito; Barbeiro, Sílvia; Cunha-Vaz, José

http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/1956

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Despeckling optical coherence tomograms from the human retina is a fundamental step to a better diagnosis or as a preprocessing stage for retinal layer segmentation. Both of these applications are particularly important in monitoring the progression of retinal disorders. In this study we propose a new formulation for a well-known nonlinear complex diffusion filter. A regularization factor is now made to be dependent on data, and the process itself is now an adaptive one. Experimental results making use of synthetic data show the good performance of the proposed formulation by achieving better quantitative results and increasing computation speed.

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Speckle Spatial filtering Image processing Optical coherence tomography Ophthalmology Optical diagnostics for medicine

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/1956

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Bernardes, Rui et al. - Improved adaptive complex diffusion despeckling filter. "Optics Express" [Em linha]. ISSN 1094-4087. Vol. 18, nº 23 (2010), p. 24048-24059