Speckle noise reduction in swept-source optical coherence tomography by retinal image registration
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摘要: 多帧叠加平均处理是去除扫频光学相干层析系统散斑噪声、获得较为清晰结构信息的有效方法，但眼睛的震颤、漂移、微眼跳等生理特性和系统光路特性会使图像之间存在错位，导致叠加效果不佳、结构稳定性差，为此本文提出一种基于灰度分布信息和目标几何信息相结合的配准算法。该方法根据图像平均灰度分布提取包含目标信息的感兴趣区域，通过相位相关算法和基于分段拟合的灰度投影算法的双重作用校正图像的平移变换；通过拟合视网膜上边界作为特征点迭代确定最佳旋转参数，并再次重新估计平移参数，实现图像的刚性配准；最后通过轴向扫描一对一映射法以能量函数为约束条件实现图像的非刚性配准。对活体兔眼进行实验，结果表明，本文算法配准后的叠加图像边界清晰，结构信息增强，信噪比和对比度平均有效提高一倍多。本算法适用于强噪声视网膜B-Scans图像的配准，能满足多种类型OCT系统的叠加成像需要，具有较高的鲁棒性和图像配准精度。Abstract: The averaging of multiple B-Scans is an effective method of reducing speckle noise in Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography (SS-OCT) and obtaining clear structural information. However, physiological characteristics such as eye tremor, drift, micro-saccade, and the optical structure of an SS-OCT system cause geometric transformation between images, resulting in poor multi-frame averaging. In this paper, we propose a registration algorithm based on the combination of gray distribution information and target geometric information. This method extracts the region of interest containing target information using the average gray distribution of an image, and corrects the transformation of the image with the collective effect of the phase correlation algorithm and the gray projection algorithm based on the fitting of the curve of its segments. Then, the process is repeated with the upper boundary of the retinal image fitted as the feature points to determine the optimal rotation parameters. The translation parameters are re-estimated again to achieve the rigid registration of the image. Finally, a one-to-one mapping method of axial scanning is used to achieve the non-rigid registration of the image with the energy function as the constraint. Experiments on live rabbit eyes show that the averaged image has clear boundaries, enhanced structural information, and its signal-to-noise and contrast-to-noise ratios are more than doubled their previous values on average. The algorithm is suitable for the registration of B-Scan images with strong speckle noise and can meet the averaging needs of many types of OCT systems. It has high robustness and image registration accuracy.
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图 1 OCT序列图像错位原因。（a）眼睛轴向运动；（b）眼睛垂轴运动；（c）眼睛旋转运动；（d）多角度光线入射
Figure 1. Analysis of reasons for geometric transformation of OCT sequence images. (a) Axial eye movement; (b) vertical eye movement; (c) rotational eye movement; (d) multi-angle light incidence
图 3 预处理过程。（a）原始视网膜B-Scan图像；（b）列平均灰度分布图；（c）ROI图像
Figure 3. Pretreatment process. (a) Original B-Scan image of retinal image; (b) column average gray distribution map; (c) ROI image
图 4 分段拟合处理过程。（a）曲线分割结果（黑色虚线为分割线）；（b）原始曲线段（最佳连接点A、黑色直线为包络线）；（c）处理后的曲线段
Figure 4. Fitting process of curve segments. (a) Results of curve segmentation (the dotted black line is the segmentation line); (b) original curve segment results (optimal connection point A, the straight black line is the envelope); (c) curve segment after processing
图 5 刚性配准结果。（a）上边界提取过程；（b）平移配准后的叠加图；（c）旋转配准后的叠加图（绿色为参考图像，紫色为目标图像）
Figure 5. Results of rigid registration. (a) Upper boundary extraction process; (b) averaging image after translation registration; (c) averaging image after rotation registration. (Green is the reference image, purple is the target image)
图 6 非刚性配准结果。（a）刚性配准后的叠加图及局部放大图；（b）非刚性配准后的叠加图及局部放大图（绿色为参考图像，紫色为目标图像）
Figure 6. Results of non-rigid registration. (a) Average image obtained after rigid registration; (b) average image obtained after non-rigid registration (The red dashed box represents an enlarged partial view; Green is the reference image, and purple is the target image)
图 7 本算法实验结果图。（a）原始单帧图；（b）配准后的叠加图
Figure 7. The experimental results obtained by the algorithm proposed in this paper. (a) Original single frame image; (b) averaging image after registration
图 8 （a）区域选择及SNR（b）和CNR（c）随叠加帧数递增的曲线变化图
Figure 8. (a) Area selection, SNR (b) and CNR (c) curve change with an increasing number of multiple frames
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