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We introduce a new technique for generating retinal fundus images that have anatomically accurate vascular structures, using diffusion models. We generate artery/vein masks to create the vascular structure, which we then condition to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-12 Sojung Go , Younghoon Ji , Sang Jun Park , Soochahn Lee

Retinal vessel segmentation methods based on standard overlap losses tend to miss thin peripheral vessels because these structures occupy very few pixels and have low contrast against the background. We propose HMS-VesselNet, a hierarchical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Amarnath R

Retinal vessel segmentation is an essential step for fundus image analysis. With the recent advances of deep learning technologies, many convolutional neural networks have been applied in this field, including the successful U-Net. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-11 Weilin Fu , Katharina Breininger , Zhaoya Pan , Andreas Maier

Our research focuses on the critical field of early diagnosis of disease by examining retinal blood vessels in fundus images. While automatic segmentation of retinal blood vessels holds promise for early detection, accurate analysis remains…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Fatema Tuj Johora Faria , Mukaffi Bin Moin , Pronay Debnath , Asif Iftekher Fahim , Faisal Muhammad Shah

One of the most effective ways to treat liver cancer is to perform precise liver resection surgery, the key step of which includes precise digital image segmentation of the liver and its tumor. However, traditional liver parenchymal…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-11 Danyi Huang , Ziang Liu , Yizhou Li

Purpose: We proposed a deep convolutional neural network (CNN), named Retinal Fluid Segmentation Network (ReF-Net) to segment volumetric retinal fluid on optical coherence tomography (OCT) volume. Methods: 3 x 3-mm OCT scans were acquired…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Yukun Guo , Tristan T. Hormel , Honglian Xiong , Jie Wang , Thomas S. Hwang , Yali Jia

Many eye diseases like Diabetic Macular Edema (DME), Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD), and Glaucoma manifest in the retina, can cause irreversible blindness or severely impair the central version. The Optical Coherence Tomography…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-10 Nchongmaje Ndipenoch , Alina Miron , Zidong Wang , Yongmin Li

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

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

Accurate retinal vessel (RV) segmentation is a crucial step in the quantitative assessment of retinal vasculature, which is needed for the early detection of retinal diseases and other conditions. Numerous studies have been conducted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Trung Dang , Huy Hoang Nguyen , Aleksei Tiulpin

Accurate identification of arteries and veins in ultrasound images is crucial for vascular examinations and interventions in robotics-assisted surgeries. However, current methods for ultrasound vessel segmentation face challenges in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-01 Yimeng Geng , Gaofeng Meng , Mingcong Chen , Guanglin Cao , Mingyang Zhao , Jianbo Zhao , Hongbin Liu

Topological alignments and snakes are used in image processing, particularly in locating object boundaries. Both of them have their own advantages and limitations. To improve the overall image boundary detection system, we focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-06-03 Ashraf A. Aly , Safaai Bin Deris , Nazar Zaki

Purpose: To demonstrate that retinal microvasculature per se is a reliable biomarker for Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) and, by extension, cardiovascular diseases. Methods: Deep Learning Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) applied to color…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-29 Anusua Trivedi , Jocelyn Desbiens , Ron Gross , Sunil Gupta , Rahul Dodhia , Juan Lavista Ferres

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

Observing retinal fundus images by an ophthalmologist is a major diagnosis approach for glaucoma. However, it is still difficult to distinguish the features of the lesion solely through manual observations, especially, in glaucoma early…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Peng Liu , Ruogu Fang

In this study, a supervised retina blood vessel segmentation process was performed on the green channel of the RGB image using artificial neural network (ANN). The green channel is preferred because the retinal vessel structures can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-17 Esra Kaya , İsmail Sarıtaş , Ilker Ali Ozkan

Retinal vessel segmentation is a vital early detection method for several severe ocular diseases. Despite significant progress in retinal vessel segmentation with the advancement of Neural Networks, there are still challenges to overcome.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Shuang Zeng , Chee Hong Lee , Micky C Nnamdi , Wenqi Shi , J Ben Tamo , Lei Zhu , Hangzhou He , Xinliang Zhang , Qian Chen , May D. Wang , Yanye Lu , Qiushi Ren

Accurate cerebrovascular segmentation from Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA) and Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA) is of great significance in diagnosis and treatment of cerebrovascular pathology. Due to the complexity and topology…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Zhanqiang Guo , Yao Luan , Jianjiang Feng , Wangsheng Lu , Yin Yin , Guangming Yang , Jie Zhou

Human veins are important for carrying the blood from the body-parts to the heart. The improper functioning of the human veins may arise from several venous diseases. Varicose vein is one such disease wherein back flow of blood can occur,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Maryam Viqar , Violeta Madjarova , Vipul Baghel , Elena Stoykova

High fidelity segmentation of both macro and microvascular structure of the retina plays a pivotal role in determining degenerative retinal diseases, yet it is a difficult problem. Due to successive resolution loss in the encoding phase…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Sharif Amit Kamran , Khondker Fariha Hossain , Alireza Tavakkoli , Stewart Lee Zuckerbrod , Kenton M. Sanders , Salah A. Baker