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Furthermore, the dataset was manually segmented by a retinal ophthalmologist to draw a comparison with the proposed automatic segmentation technique.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this study, curvelet transform-based K-SVD dictionary learning and Lucy-Richardson algorithm were used to remove the speckle noise from OCT images. The Outer\/Inner Choroidal Boundaries (O\/ICB) were determined utilizing graph theory. 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