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Convolutional Prompting for Broad-Domain Retinal Vessel Segmentation

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024-12-25 v1

Abstract

Previous research on retinal vessel segmentation is targeted at a specific image domain, mostly color fundus photography (CFP). In this paper we make a brave attempt to attack a more challenging task of broad-domain retinal vessel segmentation (BD-RVS), which is to develop a unified model applicable to varied domains including CFP, SLO, UWF, OCTA and FFA. To that end, we propose Dual Convoltuional Prompting (DCP) that learns to extract domain-specific features by localized prompting along both position and channel dimensions. DCP is designed as a plug-in module that can effectively turn a R2AU-Net based vessel segmentation network to a unified model, yet without the need of modifying its network structure. For evaluation we build a broad-domain set using five public domain-specific datasets including ROSSA, FIVES, IOSTAR, PRIME-FP20 and VAMPIRE. In order to benchmark BD-RVS on the broad-domain dataset, we re-purpose a number of existing methods originally developed in other contexts, producing eight baseline methods in total. Extensive experiments show the the proposed method compares favorably against the baselines for BD-RVS.

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@article{arxiv.2412.18089,
  title  = {Convolutional Prompting for Broad-Domain Retinal Vessel Segmentation},
  author = {Qijie Wei and Weihong Yu and Xirong Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.18089},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Accepted by ICASSP 2025

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