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    Area of Science:

    • Biomedical Imaging
    • Optical Engineering
    • Image Processing

    Background:

    • Speckle noise in optical coherence tomography (OCT) degrades image quality.
    • This noise obscures crucial details of tissue microstructure.
    • Effective noise reduction is vital for accurate OCT-based diagnostics.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop and evaluate a new method for speckle noise reduction in OCT images.
    • To improve the contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) of OCT scans.
    • To enhance the visualization of structural details in OCT data.

    Main Methods:

    • Multi-scan OCT data registration using global and local motion estimation.
    • Low-rank matrix completion with bilateral random projection for noise estimation.
    • Reconstruction of denoised OCT images.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed method achieved an average CNR of 14.90.
    • This result is superior to the state-of-the-art method's CNR of 13.78.
    • The technique effectively reduces speckle noise, revealing finer structural details.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed method offers superior speckle noise reduction in OCT.
    • It can be integrated into existing OCT systems to enhance image quality.
    • This advancement has the potential to improve diagnostic accuracy in OCT imaging.