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ArticleProceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering2020

Self-fusion for OCT noise reduction.

Ipek Oguz, Joseph D Malone, Yigit Atay, Yuankai K Tao

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Article in Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review of diffusion models and its applications in biomedical informatics.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2025
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  6. Recurrent Self Fusion: Iterative Denoising for Consistent Retinal OCT Segmentation.Ophthalmic medical image analysis : 10th International Workshop, OMIA 2023, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2023, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 12, 2023, Proceedings. OMIA (Workshop) (10th : 2023 : Vancouver, B.C. ; Online) · 2023
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  9. Retinal OCT Denoising with Pseudo-Multimodal Fusion Network.Ophthalmic medical image analysis : 7th International Workshop, OMIA 2020, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2020, Lima, Peru, October 8, 2020, proceedings · 2020
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  10. LIFE: A Generalizable Autodidactic Pipeline for 3D OCT-A Vessel Segmentation.Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention : MICCAI ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention
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4 authors.

Ipek OguzVanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
Joseph D MaloneVanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
Yigit AtayVanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
Yuankai K TaoVanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

Funding

Early detection of Huntington's Disease: Longitudinal analysis of basal ganglia and cortical thicknessR01NS094456 · NINDS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI OGUZ, IPEK · 2016 to 2019
$1.3M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS094456
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reducing speckle noise is an important task for improving visual and automated assessment of retinal OCT images. Traditional image/signal processing methods only offer moderate speckle reduction; deep learning methods can be more effective but require substantial training data, which may not be readily available. We present a novel self-fusion method that offers effective speckle reduction comparable to deep learning methods, but without any external training data. We present qualitative and quantitative results in a variety of datasets from fovea and optic nerve head regions, with varying SNR values for input images.

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PMID34873356
PMCPMC8643350

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