SEGMENTATION

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MOTIVATION
Importance of segmentation of anatomical structures in corneal
images for the diagnosis and study of anterior segment diseases
Current researches in Optical Coherance Tomography OCT
segmentation are mostly based on improving the accuracy and
precision, and on reducing the required processing time.

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LITERATURE SURVEY

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LITERATURE SURVEY contd..

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PROBLEM FORMULATION
The OCT image has low signal to noise ratio and contains image
non-homogeneities.
The inner boundaries of the OCT image are indistinct.
Current OCT segmentation techniques are having lack of
accuracy and precision
Segmentation of OCT image of cornea using MATLAB

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METHODOLOGY
Comparison of current segmentation techniques using MatLab

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EXPECTED RESULT
To produce a highly encouraging segmentation technique for
reducing the time and improving the accuracy required to segment
images in large-scale ophthalmic studies.

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WORK PLAN

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FIRST PHASE
SPECKLE NOISE SUPPRESSION

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SPECKLE NOISE IN OCT

Main source of noise, which degrades quality of an image .
Speckle noise arises during image acquisition.
OCT is a high speed image acquisition technique.
OCT imaging uses LASER sources- images are by speckle noise

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SPECKLE NOISE AND ITS REDUCTION

OCT images are multiplicative noise which is mathematically
represented as ,
D(m,n) = S(m,n) U(m,n) + V(m,n)
log D(m,n) = log S(m,n) + log U(m,n)
Many methods are available for removing speckle noise WAVELET TRANSFORM

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WAVELET BASED SPECKLE NOISE(SN) REDUCTION

Wavelet transform use wavelet based thresholding - soft
thresholding and hard thresholding.
SN is a high frequency component ,it can be appeard as wavelet
coeffients

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ALGORITHM FOR WAVELET BASED SN REDUCTION

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THANK YOU

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