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Purpose: Automatic and accurate segmentation of fundus vessel images has become an essential prerequisite for computer-aided diagnosis of ophthalmic diseases such as diabetes mellitus. The task of high-precision retinal vessel segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 Xiang Li , Mingsi Liu , Lixin Duan

Microvascular anatomy is known to be involved in various neurological disorders. However, understanding these disorders is hindered by the lack of imaging modalities capable of capturing the comprehensive three-dimensional vascular network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Etienne Chollet , Yaël Balbastre , Chiara Mauri , Caroline Magnain , Bruce Fischl , Hui Wang

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

The analysis of retinal images for the diagnosis of various diseases is one of the emerging areas of research. Recently, the research direction has been inclined towards investigating several changes in retinal blood vessels in subjects…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Mehwish Mehmood , Shahzaib Iqbal , Tariq Mahmood Khan , Ivor Spence , Muhammad Fahim

Retinal vessel segmentation serves as a critical prerequisite for automated diagnosis of retinal pathologies. While recent advances in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated promising performance in this task, significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Zhanqiang Guo , Jianjiang Feng , Jie Zhou

The analysis of organ vessels is essential for computer-aided diagnosis and surgical planning. But it is not a easy task since the fine-detailed connected regions of organ vessel bring a lot of ambiguity in vessel segmentation and sub-type…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 Chenxin Li , Wenao Ma , Liyan Sun , Xinghao Ding , Yue Huang , Guisheng Wang , Yizhou Yu

Accurate segmentation of MR brain tissue is a crucial step for diagnosis, surgical planning, and treatment of brain abnormalities. Automatic and reliable segmenta-tion methods are required to assist doctor. Over the last few years, deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Yang Deng , Yao Sun , Yongpei Zhu , Shuo Zhang , Mingwang Zhu , Kehong Yuan

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a complication of long-standing, unchecked diabetes and one of the leading causes of blindness in the world. This paper focuses on improved and robust methods to extract some of the features of DR, viz. Blood…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Soham Basu , Sayantan Mukherjee , Ankit Bhattacharya , Anindya Sen

The morphology of retinal blood vessels can indicate various diseases in the human body, and researchers have been working on automatic scanning and segmentation of retinal images to aid diagnosis. This project compares the performance of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-20 Ifeyinwa Linda Anene , Yongmin Li

Vessel segmentation is widely used to help with vascular disease diagnosis. Vessels reconstructed using existing methods are often not sufficiently accurate to meet clinical use standards. This is because 3D vessel structures are highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-09 Gangming Zhao , Kongming Liang , Chengwei Pan , Fandong Zhang , Xianpeng Wu , Xinyang Hu , Yizhou Yu

Diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration pose a significant risk to vision, highlighting the importance of precise segmentation of retinal vessels for the tracking and diagnosis of progression. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Tariq M. Khan , Muhammad Arsalan , Shahzaib Iqbal , Imran Razzak , Erik Meijering

In ophthalmology, the study of the retinal microcirculation is a key issue in the analysis of many ocular and systemic diseases, like hypertension or diabetes. This motivates the research on improving the retinal vasculature segmentation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-23 José Morano , Álvaro S. Hervella , Noelia Barreira , Jorge Novo , José Rouco

Vision impairment due to pathological damage of the retina can largely be prevented through periodic screening using fundus color imaging. However the challenge with large scale screening is the inability to exhaustively detect fine blood…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Debapriya Maji , Anirban Santara , Pabitra Mitra , Debdoot Sheet

Vascular segmentation represents a crucial clinical task, yet its automation remains challenging. Because of the recent strides in deep learning, vesselness filters, which can significantly aid the learning process, have been overlooked.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Guillaume Garret , Antoine Vacavant , Carole Frindel

The utilisation of deep learning segmentation algorithms that learn complex organs and tissue patterns and extract essential regions of interest from the noisy background to improve the visual ability for medical image diagnosis has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yanming Guo

Retinal vessels are important biomarkers for many ophthalmological and cardiovascular diseases. Hence, it is of great significance to develop automatic models for computer-aided diagnosis. Existing methods, such as U-Net follow the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Song Guo

Automatic blood vessel segmentation from retinal images plays an important role in the diagnosis of many systemic and eye diseases, including retinopathy of prematurity. Current state-of-the-art research in blood vessel segmentation from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Gorana Gojić , Veljko Petrović , Radovan Turović , Dinu Dragan , Ana Oros , Dušan Gajić , Nebojša Horvat

Accurate segmentation of vascular networks from sparse CT scan slices remains a significant challenge in medical imaging, particularly due to the thin, branching nature of vessels and the inherent sparsity between imaging planes. Existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Salvatore Esposito , Daniel Rebain , Arno Onken , Changjian Li , Oisin Mac Aodha

State-of-the-art vessel segmentation methods typically require large-scale annotated datasets and suffer from severe performance degradation under domain shifts. In clinical practice, however, acquiring extensive annotations for every new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Kirato Yoshihara , Yohei Sugawara , Yuta Tokuoka , Lihang Hong

Recent progress on saliency detection is substantial, benefiting mostly from the explosive development of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Semantic segmentation and saliency detection algorithms developed lately have been mostly based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Xiao-Wei Hu , Ali Borji , Zhuowen Tu , Philip Torr