Abstract

Removing noise from the original medical image is still a challenging research in image processing. This paper presents a new method for speckle noise reduction in Optical coherence Tomography (OCT). Stationary wavelet transform (SWT) is employed to provide effective representation of the noisy coefficients. Nonlinear Anisotropic filtering of the Details coefficients improves the denoising efficiency and effectively preserves the edge features while wiener filter improves to denoising approximate coefficients. The performance of the proposed method is compared with Nonlinear Anisotropic filter, Wiener filter, Lee filter and Frost filter and analyzed based on the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR).

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