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Nonetheless, during the imaging process, saturation artifacts are commonly generated due to the tangent of the corneal surface at that point, which is normal to the incident light source. This stripe-shaped saturation artifact covers the corneal surface, causing blurring of the corneal edge, reducing the accuracy of corneal segmentation. To settle this matter, an inpainting method that introduces structural similarity and frequency loss is proposed to remove the saturation artifact in AS-OCT images. Specifically, the structural similarity loss reconstructs the corneal structure and restores corneal textural details. The frequency loss combines the spatial domain with the frequency domain to ensure the overall consistency of the image in both domains. 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