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Automatic segmentation of retinal vessels in fundus images plays an important role in the diagnosis of some diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. In this paper, we propose Deformable U-Net (DUNet), which exploits the retinal vessels'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Qiangguo Jin , Zhaopeng Meng , Tuan D. Pham , Qi Chen , Leyi Wei , Ran Su

The reliable segmentation of retinal vasculature can provide the means to diagnose and monitor the progression of a variety of diseases affecting the blood vessel network, including diabetes and hypertension. We leverage the power of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-23 Ali Hatamizadeh , Hamid Hosseini , Zhengyuan Liu , Steven D. Schwartz , Demetri Terzopoulos

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

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of vision loss globally. Yet despite its prevalence, the majority of affected people lack access to the specialized ophthalmologists and equipment required for assessing their condition. This can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Alexandros Papadopoulos , Fotis Topouzis , Anastasios Delopoulos

We have developed and trained a convolutional neural network to automatically and simultaneously segment optic disc, fovea and blood vessels. Fundus images were normalised before segmentation was performed to enforce consistency in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Jen Hong Tan , U. Rajendra Acharya , Sulatha V. Bhandary , Kuang Chua Chua , Sobha Sivaprasad

Segmenting blood vessels in fundus imaging plays an important role in medical diagnosis. Many algorithms have been proposed. While deep Neural Networks have been attracting enormous attention from computer vision community recent years and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Yongliang Chen

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

Diagnosing different retinal diseases from Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT) images is a challenging task. Different automated approaches such as image processing, machine learning and deep learning algorithms have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Sharif Amit Kamran , Sourajit Saha , Ali Shihab Sabbir , Alireza Tavakkoli

We proposed a deep learning method for interpretable diabetic retinopathy (DR) detection. The visual-interpretable feature of the proposed method is achieved by adding the regression activation map (RAM) after the global averaging pooling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Zhiguang Wang , Jianbo Yang

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the form of an interpretable and semiautomatic approach to stage grading ocular pathologies such as Diabetic retinopathy, Hypertensive retinopathy, and other retinopathies on the backdrop of major…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-15 Ayushi Raj Bhatt , Rajkumar Vaghashiya , Meghna Kulkarni , Dr Prakash Kamaraj

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated impressive performance on many visual tasks. Recently, they became useful models for the visual system in neuroscience. However, it is still not clear what are learned by CNNs in…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-19 Qi Yan , Yajing Zheng , Shanshan Jia , Yichen Zhang , Zhaofei Yu , Feng Chen , Yonghong Tian , Tiejun Huang , Jian K. Liu

The segmentation of retinal vessels is of significance for doctors to diagnose the fundus diseases. However, existing methods have various problems in the segmentation of the retinal vessels, such as insufficient segmentation of retinal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Yun Jiang , Ning Tan

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

Our objective is to evaluate the efficacy of methods that use deep learning (DL) for the automatic fine-grained segmentation of optical coherence tomography (OCT) images of the retina. OCT images from 10 patients with mild non-proliferative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Mike Pekala , Neil Joshi , David E. Freund , Neil M. Bressler , Delia Cabrera DeBuc , Philippe M Burlina

Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), a noninvasive cross-sectional scan of the eye with qualitative 3D visualization of the retinal anatomy is use to study the retinal structure and the presence of pathogens. The advent of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Nchongmaje Ndipenoch , Alina Miron , Zidong Wang , Yongmin Li

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a serious microvascular complication of diabetes, and one of the leading causes of vision loss worldwide. Although automated detection and grading, with Deep Learning (DL), can reduce the burden on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Shramana Dey , Zahir Khan , T. A. PramodKumar , B. Uma Shankar , Ashis K. Dhara , Ramachandran Rajalakshmi , Rajiv Raman , Sushmita Mitra

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of blindness worldwide, necessitating early detection to prevent vision loss. Current automated DR detection systems often struggle with poor-quality images, lack interpretability, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Idowu Paul Okuwobi , Jingyuan Liu , Jifeng Wan , Jiaojiao Jiang

This paper presents a novel iterative deep learning framework and apply it for document enhancement and binarization. Unlike the traditional methods which predict the binary label of each pixel on the input image, we train the neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Sheng He , Lambert Schomaker

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

Deep learning techniques have successfully been employed in numerous computer vision tasks including image segmentation. The techniques have also been applied to medical image segmentation, one of the most critical tasks in computer-aided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Titinunt Kitrungrotsakul , Iwamoto Yutaro , Lanfen Lin , Ruofeng Tong , Jingsong Li , Yen-Wei Chen