Self-supervised Denoising via Diffeomorphic Template Estimation: Application to Optical Coherence Tomography

Guillaume Gisbert, Neel Dey, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Joel Schuman, James Fishbaugh, Guido Gerig

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Abstract

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is pervasive in both the research and clinical practice of Ophthalmology. However, OCT images are strongly corrupted by noise, limiting their interpretation. Current OCT denoisers leverage assumptions on noise distributions or generate targets for training deep supervised denoisers via averaging of repeat acquisitions. However, recent self-supervised advances allow the training of deep denoising networks using only repeat acquisitions without clean targets as ground truth, reducing the burden of supervised learning. Despite the clear advantages of self-supervised methods, their use is precluded as OCT shows strong structural deformations even between sequential scans of the same subject due to involuntary eye motion. Further, direct nonlinear alignment of repeats induces correlation of the noise between images. In this paper, we propose a joint diffeomorphic template estimation and denoising framework which enables the use of self-supervised denoising for motion deformed repeat acquisitions, without empirically registering their noise realizations. Strong qualitative and quantitative improvements are achieved in denoising OCT images, with generic utility in any imaging modality amenable to multiple exposures.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationOphthalmic Medical Image Analysis - 7th International Workshop, OMIA 2020, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2020, Proceedings
EditorsHuazhu Fu, Mona K. Garvin, Tom MacGillivray, Yanwu Xu, Yalin Zheng
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages72-82
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783030634186
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event6th International Workshop on Ophthalmic Medical Image Analysis, OMIA 2020, held in conjunction with 23rd International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2020 - Lima, Peru
Duration: Oct 8 2020Oct 8 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12069 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference6th International Workshop on Ophthalmic Medical Image Analysis, OMIA 2020, held in conjunction with 23rd International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2020
Country/TerritoryPeru
CityLima
Period10/8/2010/8/20

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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