The invention discloses a
phase unwrapping algorithm for
optical coherence elastography, and relates to the technical field of
phase unwrapping. The
algorithm is based on an improved U-Net architecture, a network comprising an
encoder, a decoder and a jump connection mechanism is constructed, the core is cooperated with an EGA module through a multi-
branch Inception residual module in the
encoder, the multi-
branch Inception residual module extracts different
receptive field phase features through five parallel
convolution branches, the EGA module calculates gradients through a
Sobel operator, attention weights are generated, and the attention weights are calculated through the EGA module. Strengthening phase edge and gradient
mutation region response; the decoder removes
residual noise through transposition
convolution up-sampling, fusion of high and low layer features for fine reconstruction, and optional
smoothing filtering. The method solves the problems that a traditional
algorithm is low in precision, poor in robustness and low in speed under the scenes of low
signal-to-
noise ratio, strong speckle disturbance and severe
phase gradient change, achieves high precision, high robustness and rapid unwrapping of OCE phase signals, adapts to complex
tissue deformation and large-view-field rapid reconstruction requirements, and can be widely applied to the fields of
clinical diagnosis, biomedical research and the like.