A Study on Honey-Comb Structure Noise Removal for Images Acquired by Fiberscope

Abstract

Fiberscope is expected to lead the new possibility in diagnosis and operation since it is easy to make it thinner than endoscope and it can be penetrated in very narrow gap of 1~2mm. However, the quality of images acquired by fiberscope is seriously deteriorated due to the shadow caused around the perimeter of each optical fiber that transmits optical signal. In this work, we study on two noise removal methods that central point of all optical fibers in fiberscope. Through the experiments using the images acquired by fiberscope actually, the effectiveness of these methods is compared.