Generative Adversarial Networks with Dense Connection for Optical Coherence Tomography Images Denoising

Aihui Yu, Xiaoming Liu*, Xiangkai Wei, Tianyu Fu, Dong Liu

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Abstract

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is widely used in the diagnosis of ophthalmic diseases. However, OCT is affected by ubiquitous speckle noise which make it difficult to analysis the retinal structures. To efficiently remove the noise as well as preserve clinical detail information contained in the images, we suggest to train a denoise generative adversarial network (DNGAN) jointly with a densely connected convolutional network to estimate clean OCT images from noisy OCT images. A generator convolutional neural network (CNN) with several dense connections, is trained to transform noisy OCT image into clean OCT image. At the same time, an adversarial CNN is trained to improve the denoising performance of the generator. The experimental results demonstrate the superior performance of our network on OCT images.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2018 11th International Congress on Image and Signal Processing, BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, CISP-BMEI 2018
EditorsWei Li, Qingli Li, Lipo Wang
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781538676042
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Jul 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event11th International Congress on Image and Signal Processing, BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, CISP-BMEI 2018 - Beijing, China
Duration: 13 Oct 201815 Oct 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2018 11th International Congress on Image and Signal Processing, BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, CISP-BMEI 2018

Conference

Conference11th International Congress on Image and Signal Processing, BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, CISP-BMEI 2018
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period13/10/1815/10/18

Keywords

  • OCT
  • denoising
  • densely connected convolutional network
  • generative adversarial network

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