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Accurate multi-class segmentation is a long-standing challenge in medical imaging, especially in scenarios where classes share strong similarity. Segmenting retinal blood vessels in retinal photographs is one such scenario, in which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-10 Yukun Zhou , Moucheng Xu , Yipeng Hu , Hongxiang Lin , Joseph Jacob , Pearse A. Keane , Daniel C. Alexander

The change of retinal vasculature is an early sign of many vascular and systematic diseases, such as diabetes and hypertension. Different behaviors of retinal arterioles and venules form an important metric to measure the disease severity.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Meng Li , Yan Zhang , Haicheng She , Jinqiong Zhou , Jia Jia , Danmei He , Li Zhang

Segmentation of blood vessels in retinal images provides early diagnosis of diseases like glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration. Among these diseases occurrence of Glaucoma is most frequent and has serious ocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-09-07 Nilanjan Dey , Anamitra Bardhan Roy , Moumita Pal , Achintya Das

Retinal vessel segmentation is of great interest for diagnosis of retinal vascular diseases. To further improve the performance of vessel segmentation, we propose IterNet, a new model based on UNet, with the ability to find obscured details…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-13 Liangzhi Li , Manisha Verma , Yuta Nakashima , Hajime Nagahara , Ryo Kawasaki

Accurate segmentation of the blood vessels of the retina is an important step in clinical diagnosis of ophthalmic diseases. Many deep learning frameworks have come up for retinal blood vessels segmentation tasks. However, the complex…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-08 Ting Zhang , Jun Li , Yi Zhao , Nan Chen , Han Zhou , Hongtao Xu , Zihao Guan , Changcai Yang , Lanyan Xue , Riqing Chen , Lifang Wei

We identify two major limitations in the existing studies on retinal vessel segmentation: (1) Most existing works are restricted to one modality, i.e., the Color Fundus (CF). However, multi-modality retinal images are used every day in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Bo Wen , Anna Heinke , Akshay Agnihotri , Dirk-Uwe Bartsch , William Freeman , Truong Nguyen , Cheolhong An

The segmentation of the retinal vasculature from eye fundus images represents one of the most fundamental tasks in retinal image analysis. Over recent years, increasingly complex approaches based on sophisticated Convolutional Neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-07 Adrian Galdran , André Anjos , José Dolz , Hadi Chakor , Hervé Lombaert , Ismail Ben Ayed

Retinal vessel segmentation is a fundamental step in screening, diagnosis, and treatment of various cardiovascular and ophthalmic diseases. Robustness is one of the most critical requirements for practical utilization, since the test images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-29 Xu Sun , Huihui Fang , Yehui Yang , Dongwei Zhu , Lei Wang , Junwei Liu , Yanwu Xu

The retinal vasculature provides important clues in the diagnosis and monitoring of systemic diseases including hypertension and diabetes. The microvascular system is of primary involvement in such conditions, and the retina is the only…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Ali Hatamizadeh , Hamid Hosseini , Niraj Patel , Jinseo Choi , Cameron C. Pole , Cory M. Hoeferlin , Steven D. Schwartz , Demetri Terzopoulos

Segmentation of retinal vessel images is critical to the diagnosis of retinopathy. Recently, convolutional neural networks have shown significant ability to extract the blood vessel structure. However, it remains challenging to refined…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Geng-Xin Xu , Chuan-Xian Ren

Retinal vascular segmentation, a widely researched topic in biomedical image processing, aims to reduce the workload of ophthalmologists in treating and detecting retinal disorders. Segmenting retinal vessels presents unique challenges;…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Melaku N. Getahun , Oleg Y. Rogov , Dmitry V. Dylov , Andrey Somov , Ahmed Bouridane , Rifat Hamoudi

The precise delineation of blood vessels in medical images is critical for many clinical applications, including pathology detection and surgical planning. However, fully-automated vascular segmentation is challenging because of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Amine Sadikine , Bogdan Badic , Enzo Ferrante , Vincent Noblet , Pascal Ballet , Dimitris Visvikis , Pierre-Henri Conze

The caliber and configuration of retinal blood vessels serve as important biomarkers for various diseases and medical conditions. A thorough analysis of the retinal vasculature requires the segmentation of the blood vessels and their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 José Morano , Guilherme Aresta , Hrvoje Bogunović

Doppler holography is an emerging retinal imaging technique that captures the dynamic behavior of blood flow with high temporal resolution, enabling quantitative assessment of retinal hemodynamics. This requires accurate segmentation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Marius Dubosc , Yann Fischer , Zacharie Auray , Nicolas Boutry , Edwin Carlinet , Michael Atlan , Thierry Geraud

Enhancement, followed by segmentation, quantification and modelling, of blood vessels in retinal images plays an essential role in computer-aid retinopathy diagnosis. In this paper, we introduce a new vessel enhancement method which is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Çiğdem Sazak , Carl J. Nelson , Boguslaw Obara

We present a cascade deep neural network to segment retinal vessels in volumetric optical coherence tomography (OCT). Two types of knowledge are infused into the network for confining the searching regions. (1) Histology. The retinal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Liyang Fang , Jianlong Yang , Lei Mou , Huihong Zhang , Zhenjie Chai , Zhi Chen , Jiang Liu

The task of blood vessel segmentation in microscopy images is crucial for many diagnostic and research applications. However, vessels can look vastly different, depending on the transient imaging conditions, and collecting data for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-19 Shir Gur , Lior Wolf , Lior Golgher , Pablo Blinder

Analyzing the morphological attributes of blood vessels plays a critical role in the computer-aided diagnosis of many cardiovascular and ophthalmologic diseases. Although being extensively studied, segmentation of blood vessels,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-12 Yicheng Wu , Chengwei Pan , Shuqi Wang , Ming Zhang , Yong Xia , Yizhou Yu

This work proposes a pixel-classification approach for vessel segmentation in x-ray angiograms. The proposal uses textural features such as anisotropic diffusion, features based on the Hessian matrix, mathematical morphology and statistics.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 E O Rodrigues , L O Rodrigues , J J Lima , D Casanova , F Favarim , E R Dosciatti , V Pegorini , L S N Oliveira , F F C Morais

Retinal vessels segmentation is well known problem in image processing on the medical field. Good segmentation may help doctors take better decisions while diagnose eyes disuses. This paper describes our work taking up the DRIVE challenge…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-31 Nadav Potesman , Ariel Rechtman