Speckle reduction in optical coherence tomography images by use of a spatially adaptive wavelet filter

Optics Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 2878-2880

  Adler, Desmond C ^a   Ko, Tony H ^a   Fujimoto, James G ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); OPTICAL WAVELENGTHS; SPECKLE REDUCTION; WAVELET FILTERS;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE FILTERS;

COHERENT LIGHT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 10944243878     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.29.002878     Document Type: Article

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