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Inpainting for Saturation Artifacts in Optical Coherence Tomography Using Dictionary-Based Sparse Representation.

Hongshan LiuShengting CaoYuye LingYu Gan
Published in: IEEE photonics journal (2021)
Saturation artifacts in optical coherence tomography (OCT) occur when received signal exceeds the dynamic range of spectrometer. Saturation artifact shows a streaking pattern and could impact the quality of OCT images, leading to inaccurate medical diagnosis. In this paper, we automatically localize saturation artifacts and propose an artifact correction method via inpainting. We adopt a dictionary-based sparse representation scheme for inpainting. Experimental results demonstrate that, in both case of synthetic artifacts and real artifacts, our method outperforms interpolation method and Euler's elastica method in both qualitative and quantitative results. The generic dictionary offers similar image quality when applied to tissue samples which are excluded from dictionary training. This method may have the potential to be widely used in a variety of OCT images for the localization and inpainting of the saturation artifacts.
Keyphrases
  • image quality
  • optical coherence tomography
  • computed tomography
  • diabetic retinopathy
  • dual energy
  • deep learning
  • high resolution
  • convolutional neural network
  • magnetic resonance
  • quality improvement