Research Article

Retinal Image Denoising via Bilateral Filter with a Spatial Kernel of Optimally Oriented Line Spread Function

Table 3

Quantitative results in retinal vessel denoising.

Image in Figure 6 Se Sp Acc AUC DC

(b)Vessel image polluted by sparse spot noise 0.998 0.937 0.996 0.968 0.997
(c) Result of BLF 0.997 0.995 0.993 0.996 0.995
(d) Result of our method 0.998 0.997 0.994 0.998 0.998

(f) Vessel image polluted by dense noise 0.980 0.927 0.978 0.954 0.988
(g) Result of BLF 0.957 0.991 0.958 0.974 0.977
(h) Result of our method 0.998 0.995 0.995 0.997 0.981