Structural similarity assessment of an optical coherence tomographic image enhanced using the wavelet transform technique

J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2021 Jan 1;38(1):1-9. doi: 10.1364/JOSAA.401280.

Abstract

We report on the quality assessment of an optical coherence tomography (OCT) image. A set of recent digital filters are used for denoising the interferometric signals. It is found that when a combination of continuous wavelet transform (WT) decomposition and the WT denoising techniques is imposed on raw signals, the highest signal-to-noise ratio of 17.8 can be reached. The structural similarity (SSIM) index is eventually employed to evaluate the modality of the reconstructed OCT image. Further, we found out that a SSIM value of about 0.95 can be reached, independent of the method used for envelope extraction.