• Acta Optica Sinica
  • Vol. 43, Issue 20, 2010002 (2023)
Guangyi Wu, Zhuoqun Yuan, and Yanmei Liang*
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  • Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Micro-Scale Optical Information Science and Technology, Tianjin 300350, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/AOS230720 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Guangyi Wu, Zhuoqun Yuan, Yanmei Liang. Unsupervised Denoising of Retinal OCT Images Based on Deep Learning[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2023, 43(20): 2010002 Copy Citation Text show less
    Network structure of DRSA-Net
    Fig. 1. Network structure of DRSA-Net
    Flow chart of retinal OCT image unsupervised training experiment
    Fig. 2. Flow chart of retinal OCT image unsupervised training experiment
    Noise reduction in retinal OCT images. (a) Original noisy image; (b) denoised images of BM3D; (c) denoised image of DnCNN-N2N; (d) 5-frame average ground truth images; (e) denoised image of U-Net-N2N; (f) denoised image of Ours-N2N
    Fig. 3. Noise reduction in retinal OCT images. (a) Original noisy image; (b) denoised images of BM3D; (c) denoised image of DnCNN-N2N; (d) 5-frame average ground truth images; (e) denoised image of U-Net-N2N; (f) denoised image of Ours-N2N
    Noise reduction results of supervised learning and unsupervised learning retinal OCT images. (a) Original noisy image; (b) denoised image of DnCNN-N2C; (c) denoised image of U-Net-N2C; (d) denoised image of Ours-N2C; (e) 5-frame average ground truth image; (f) denoised image of DnCNN-N2N; (g) denoised image of U-Net-N2N; (h) denoised image of Ours-N2N
    Fig. 4. Noise reduction results of supervised learning and unsupervised learning retinal OCT images. (a) Original noisy image; (b) denoised image of DnCNN-N2C; (c) denoised image of U-Net-N2C; (d) denoised image of Ours-N2C; (e) 5-frame average ground truth image; (f) denoised image of DnCNN-N2N; (g) denoised image of U-Net-N2N; (h) denoised image of Ours-N2N
    Unsupervised learning generalization ability test. (a) Original noisy image; (b) denoised images of BM3D; (c) denoised image of DnCNN-N2N; (d) 40-frame average ground truth images; (e) denoised image of U-Net-N2N; (f) denoised image of Ours-N2N
    Fig. 5. Unsupervised learning generalization ability test. (a) Original noisy image; (b) denoised images of BM3D; (c) denoised image of DnCNN-N2N; (d) 40-frame average ground truth images; (e) denoised image of U-Net-N2N; (f) denoised image of Ours-N2N
    Comparison of generalization ability between supervised and unsupervised learning. (a) Denoised image of DnCNN-N2C; (b) denoised image of U-Net-N2C; (c) denoised image of Ours-N2C; (d) denoised image of DnCNN-N2N; (e) denoised image of U-Net-N2N; (f) denoised image of Ours-N2N
    Fig. 6. Comparison of generalization ability between supervised and unsupervised learning. (a) Denoised image of DnCNN-N2C; (b) denoised image of U-Net-N2C; (c) denoised image of Ours-N2C; (d) denoised image of DnCNN-N2N; (e) denoised image of U-Net-N2N; (f) denoised image of Ours-N2N
    MethodPSNRSSIMEPIENLTime /s
    BaselineNoisy19.073±0.0650.391±0.00214.938±1.693
    BM3D23.937±0.1810.253±0.1010.281±0.051434.819±111.647127
    Supervised learning modelDnCNN25.418±0.2130.506±0.0070.295±0.023220.663±14.4720.48
    U-Net24.852±0.3220.498±0.0060.304±0.024255.427±20.6420.70
    Ours25.447±0.1910.494±0.0070.312±0.025279.760±27.9460.53
    Unsupervised N2N modelDnCNN24.234±0.1830.284±0.0070.242±0.027768.128±137.6060.48
    U-Net24.543±0.2120.287±0.0080.243±0.0281601.956±573.3280.70
    Ours24.582±0.2250.289±0.0080.262±0.0261304.384±466.9830.53
    Table 1. Results of supervised learning and unsupervised learning denoising numerical evaluation
    MethodPSNRSSIMEPIENLTime /s
    BaselineNoisy18.193±0.2730.134±0.02414.074±3.681
    BM3D28.035±1.4570.550±0.0440.268±0.035418.037±106.729256
    Supervised learning modelDnCNN28.699±1.3010.554±0.0360.277±0.027216.478±37.8980.79
    U-Net27.956±1.1860.569±0.0350.287±0.028241.361±31.4991.04
    Ours29.317±1.4190.593±0.0340.293±0.030262.771±34.7620.92
    Unsupervised N2N modelDnCNN29.673±1.1950.665±0.0120.166±0.037628.151±182.5290.79
    U-Net30.950±1.5650.702±0.0120.176±0.0361266.897±338.5431.04
    Ours31.172±1.7060.706±0.0130.194±0.0351029.639±220.7140.92
    Table 2. Results of supervised learning and unsupervised learning denoising numerical evaluation
    ModulePSNRSSIMEPIENLTime/s
    DEB+GAB+RB28.962±1.6320.703±0.0150.131±0.031159.334±13.5020.73
    LSAB+GAB+RB28.737±1.2640.613±0.0260.133±0.072879.870±207.9820.69
    LSAB+DEB+RB30.301±1.4460.647±0.0120.150±0.035903.572±343.2170.73
    LSAB+DEB+GAB30.802±1.4270.701±0.0120.127±0.033937.421±225.0730.75
    LSAB+DEB+GAB+RB31.172±1.7060.706±0.0130.194±0.0351029.639±220.7140.92
    Table 3. Ablation experimental results of different modules of network