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Accurate segmentation of blood vessels is essential for various clinical assessments and postoperative analyses. However, the inherent challenges of vascular imaging, such as sparsity, fine granularity, low contrast, data distribution…

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Vessel segmentation of retinal images is a key diagnostic capability in ophthalmology. This problem faces several challenges including low contrast, variable vessel size and thickness, and presence of interfering pathology such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Venkateswararao Cherukuri , Vijay Kumar BG , Raja Bala , Vishal Monga

Retinal vessel segmentation, as a principal nonintrusive diagnose method for ophthalmology diseases or diabetics, suffers from data scarcity due to requiring pixel-wise labels. In this paper, we proposed a convenient patch-based two-stage…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-21 Chengzhi Shi , Jihong Liu , Dali Chen

Retinal blood vessel can assist doctors in diagnosis of eye-related diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, and its segmentation is particularly important for automatic retinal image analysis. However, it is challenging to segment these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Jiawei Zhang , Yanchun Zhang , Xiaowei Xu

Methods for automated retinal vessel segmentation play an important role in the treatment and diagnosis of many eye and systemic diseases. With the fast development of deep learning methods, more and more retinal vessel segmentation methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Gorana Gojić , Ognjen Kundačina , Dragiša Mišković , Dinu Dragan

In recent years, the incidence of vision-threatening eye diseases has risen dramatically, necessitating scalable and accurate screening solutions. This paper presents a comprehensive study on deep learning architectures for the automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Mohammad Sadegh Gholizadeh , Amir Arsalan Rezapour

Computer methods and image processing provide medical doctors assistance at any time and relieve their workload, especially for iterative processes like identifying objects of interest such as lesions and anatomical structures from the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-04-27 Meysam Tavakoli , Faraz Kalantari , Alireza Golestaneh

Segmentation of cerebral blood vessels from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an open problem that could be solved with deep learning (DL). However, annotated data for training is often scarce. Due to the absence of open-source tools, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-10 Georgia Kenyon , Stephan Lau , Michael A. Chappell , Mark Jenkinson

Tight-frame, a generalization of orthogonal wavelets, has been used successfully in various problems in image processing, including inpainting, impulse noise removal, super-resolution image restoration, etc. Segmentation is the process of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Xiaohao Cai , Raymond Chan , Serena Morigi , Fiorella Sgallari

Glaucoma is a serious ocular disorder for which the screening and diagnosis are carried out by the examination of the optic nerve head (ONH). The color fundus image (CFI) is the most common modality used for ocular screening. In CFI, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-05 Sharath M Shankaranarayana , Keerthi Ram , Kaushik Mitra , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Retinal vessel information is helpful in retinal disease screening and diagnosis. Retinal vessel segmentation provides useful information about vessels and can be used by physicians during intraocular surgery and retinal diagnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-23 M. Hajabdollahi , R. Esfandiarpoor , S. M. R. Soroushmehr , N. Karimi , S. Samavi , K. Najarian

Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is an important task for many computer-aided diagnosis systems. Yet, it is still a challenging problem due to the complex vessel structures of an eye. Numerous vessel segmentation methods have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Ali Karaali , Rozenn Dahyot , Donal J. Sexton

The Computer-Assisted Diagnosis systems could save workloads and give objective diagnostic to ophthalmologists. At first, feature extraction is a fundamental step. One of these retinal features is the fovea. The fovea is a small fossa on…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 Meysam Tavakoli , Patrick Kelley , Mahdieh Nazar , Faraz Kalantari

Nowadays, glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness worldwide. We propose in this paper two different deep-learning-based approaches to address glaucoma detection just from raw circumpapillary OCT images. The first one is based on the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Gabriel García , Rocío del Amor , Adrián Colomer , Valery Naranjo

This research aims to develop an efficient system for screening of diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy is the major cause of blindness. Severity of diabetic retinopathy is recognized by some features, such as blood vessel area,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Faisal Ghaffar , Sarwar Khan , Bunyarit Uyyanonvara , Chanjira Sinthanayothin , Hirohiko Kaneko

Glaucoma is a major eye disease, leading to vision loss in the absence of proper medical treatment. Current diagnosis of glaucoma is performed by ophthalmologists who are often analyzing several types of medical images generated by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Mijung Kim , Olivier Janssens , Ho-min Park , Jasper Zuallaert , Sofie Van Hoecke , Wesley De Neve

Analysis of retinal fundus images is essential for eye-care physicians in the diagnosis, care and treatment of patients. Accurate fundus and/or retinal vessel maps give rise to longitudinal studies able to utilize multimedia image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Henry A Leopold , Jeff Orchard , John S Zelek , Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

The detection of retinal vessel is of great importance in the diagnosis and treatment of many ocular diseases. Many methods have been proposed for vessel detection. However, most of the algorithms neglect the connectivity of the vessels,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-29 Lei Mou , Li Chen , Jun Cheng , Zaiwang Gu , Yitian Zhao , Jiang Liu

Automatic analysis of retinal blood images is of vital importance in diagnosis tasks of retinopathy. Segmenting vessels accurately is a fundamental step in analysing retinal images. However, it is usually difficult due to various imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Yishuo Zhang , Albert C. S. Chung

Diagnosing glaucoma progression is critical for limiting irreversible vision loss. A common method for assessing glaucoma progression uses a longitudinal series of visual fields (VF) acquired at regular intervals. VF data are characterized…

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