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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

We introduce a novel method to extract the vessels in eye fun-dus images which is adaptive to lighting variations. In the Logarithmic Image Processing framework, a 3-segment probe detects the vessels by probing the topographic surface of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Guillaume Noyel , Christine Vartin , Peter Boyle , Laurent Kodjikian

Among the research efforts to segment the retinal vasculature from fundus images, deep learning models consistently achieve superior performance. However, this data-driven approach is very sensitive to domain shifts. For fundus images, such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Dewei Hu , Xing Yao , Jiacheng Wang , Yuankai K. Tao , Ipek Oguz

Extracting blood vessels from retinal fundus images plays a decisive role in diagnosing the progression in pertinent diseases. In medical image analysis, vessel extraction is a semantic binary segmentation problem, where blood vasculature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-21 Kundan Kumar , Sumanshu Agarwal

A novel topological segmentation of retinal images represents blood vessels as connected regions in the continuous image plane, having shape-related analytic and geometric properties. This paper presents topological segmentation results…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-08-05 Martin Brooks

Vascular segmentation extracts blood vessels from images and serves as the basis for diagnosing various diseases, like ophthalmic diseases. Ophthalmologists often require high-resolution segmentation results for analysis, which leads to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Yan Hu , Zhongxi Qiu , Dan Zeng , Li Jiang , Chen Lin , Jiang Liu

Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is challenging because of the complex texture of retinal vessels and low imaging contrast. Previous methods generally refine segmentation results by cascading multiple deep networks, which are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-07 Mingxing Li , Shenglong Zhou , Chang Chen , Yueyi Zhang , Dong Liu , Zhiwei Xiong

Segmenting of clinically important retinal blood vessels into arteries and veins is a prerequisite for retinal vessel analysis. Such analysis can provide potential insights and bio-markers for identifying and diagnosing various retinal eye…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sharan SK , Subin Sahayam , Umarani Jayaraman , Lakshmi Priya A

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

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

Inner Retinal neurons are a most essential part of the retina and they are supplied with blood via retinal vessels. This paper primarily focuses on the segmentation of retinal vessels using a triple preprocessing approach. DRIVE database…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-26 Mahendra Kumar Gourisaria , Vinayak Singh , Manoj Sahni

Automated segmentation of retinal blood vessels in label-free fundus images entails a pivotal role in computed aided diagnosis of ophthalmic pathologies, viz., diabetic retinopathy, hypertensive disorders and cardiovascular diseases. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Avisek Lahiri , Abhijit Guha Roy , Debdoot Sheet , Prabir Kumar Biswas

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

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

Automatic segmentation of retina vessels plays a pivotal role in clinical diagnosis of prevalent eye diseases, such as, Diabetic Retinopathy or Age-related Macular Degeneration. Due to the complex construction of blood vessels, with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Benjamin Hou

Objective Automatic artery/vein (A/V) segmentation from fundus images is required to track blood vessel changes occurring with many pathologies including retinopathy and cardiovascular pathologies. One of the clinical measures that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Fantin Girard , Conrad Kavalec , Farida Cheriet

Retinal vessel segmentation is a crucial step in diagnosing and screening various diseases, including diabetes, ophthalmologic diseases, and cardiovascular diseases. In this paper, we propose an effective and efficient method for vessel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-24 Zhun Fan , Jiajie Mo , Benzhang Qiu , Wenji Li , Guijie Zhu , Chong Li , Jianye Hu , Yibiao Rong , Xinjian Chen

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

The vascular structure in retinal images plays a crucial role in ophthalmic diagnostics, and its accuracies are directly influenced by the quality of the retinal image. Contrast enhancement is one of the crucial steps in any segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Adnan Shaout , Jiho Han

Fundus photography is the primary method for retinal imaging and essential for diabetic retinopathy prevention. Automated segmentation of fundus photographs would improve the quality, capacity, and cost-effectiveness of eye care screening…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-29 Jan Kukačka , Anja Zenz , Marcel Kollovieh , Dominik Jüstel , Vasilis Ntziachristos