Table 1 Overview of the literature on OCT image denoising.

From: Self-supervised model-informed deep learning for low-SNR SS-OCT domain transformation

Data-driven methods

Paired data

DesPecNet 8

Network-based denoiser with knowing noise level

Gour et al. 9

Removing speckle noise using supervised trained residual network.

Devella et al. 10

Train a denoiser network on averaged frames.

Halupka et al. 11

Train a denoiser network on averaged frames.

Unpaired data

Wang et al. 14

Generative-based image-to-image translation.

Guo et al. 15

Generative network for image-to-image translation.

Ma et al. 16

Generative network for image-to-image translation.

Yu et al. 17

Generative network of image-to-image translation

Model-driven methods

Filtering

BM3D 18

Non-local patch-wise image modeling.

Wavelet-based dictionary learning 20

Wavelet based dictionary learning for image representation.

Statistical

SDE decomposition 21

Stochastic differential equation-based model to whitening OCT images.

α-stable model

Symmetric α-stable distribution modeling on whitening transformation.

BKF model

Modeling a patch-based Gaussian transform based.

Hybrid methods

Iterative models

Diffusion probabilistic model 26

Diffusion probabilistic model for image generator as prior inside an iterative optimization.

Score based model 27

Score-based model as denoiser model.

Single iteration model

B2U 29

Noise2Void model for OCT denoising.

N2N 25

Noise2Noise model for OCT denoising.