Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 43, Issue 1, 0110001(2023)

Denoising Method of Retinal OCT Images Based on Modularized Denoising Autoencoder

Hao Dai1,2,3, Yaliang Yang1,2、*, Xian Yue1,2,3, and Shen Chen1,2,3
Author Affiliations
  • 1Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610209, Sichuan , China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Adaptive Optics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610209, Sichuan , China
  • 3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Mar. 17, 2022

    Accepted: Jun. 20, 2022

    Published Online: Jan. 6, 2023

    The Author Email: Yang Yaliang (ylyang@ioe.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS220815

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