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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

We propose a novel deep-learning-based system for vessel segmentation. Existing methods using CNNs have mostly relied on local appearances learned on the regular image grid, without considering the graphical structure of vessel shape. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Seung Yeon Shin , Soochahn Lee , Il Dong Yun , Kyoung Mu Lee

Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is a challenging problem in color fundus image analysis. An automatic retinal vessel segmentation system can effectively facilitate clinical diagnosis and ophthalmological research. Technically, this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-26 Muyi Sun , Guanhong Zhang

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

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

State-of-the-art methods for retinal vessel segmentation mainly rely on manually labeled vessels as the ground truth for supervised training. The quality of manual labels plays an essential role in the segmentation accuracy, while in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-06 Yunqiao Yang , Zhiwei Wang , Jingen Liu , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Xin Yang

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

Junctions in the retinal vasculature are key points to be able to extract its topology, but they vary in appearance, depending on vessel density, width and branching/crossing angles. The complexity of junction patterns is usually…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-06 Fatmatulzehra Uslu , Anil Anthony Bharath

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

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

Retinal artery/vein (A/V) classification plays a critical role in the clinical biomarker study of how various systemic and cardiovascular diseases affect the retinal vessels. Conventional methods of automated A/V classification are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Wenao Ma , Shuang Yu , Kai Ma , Jiexiang Wang , Xinghao Ding , Yefeng Zheng

Retinal imaging has emerged as a promising method of addressing this challenge, taking advantage of the unique structure of the retina. The retina is an embryonic extension of the central nervous system, providing a direct in vivo window…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Syed Javed , Tariq M. Khan , Abdul Qayyum , Arcot Sowmya , Imran Razzak

Retinal vessel segmentation plays a vital role in analyzing fundus images for the diagnosis of systemic and ocular diseases. Building on this, classifying segmented vessels into arteries and veins (A/V) further enables the extraction of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Shuang Zeng , Chee Hong Lee , Kaiwen Li , Boxu Xie , Ourui Fu , Hangzhou He , Lei Zhu , Yanye Lu , Fangxiao Cheng

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

Segmentation of retinal vessels from retinal fundus images is the key step in the automatic retinal image analysis. In this paper, we propose a new unsupervised automatic method to segment the retinal vessels from retinal fundus images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Renoh Johnson Chalakkal , Waleed Abdulla

Retinal vessel segmentation plays a key role in computer-aided screening, diagnosis, and treatment of various cardiovascular and ophthalmic diseases. Recently, deep learning-based retinal vessel segmentation algorithms have achieved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-05 Wei Feng , Lie Ju , Lin Wang , Kaimin Song , Xin Wang , Xin Zhao , Qingyi Tao , Zongyuan Ge

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

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

This research paper addresses the critical challenge of diabetic retinopathy (DR), a severe complication of diabetes leading to potential blindness. The proposed methodology leverages transfer learning with convolutional neural networks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Manoj S H , Arya A Bosale

The retinal vascular condition is a reliable biomarker of several ophthalmologic and cardiovascular diseases, so automatic vessel segmentation may be crucial to diagnose and monitor them. In this paper, we propose a novel method that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-21 Américo Oliveira , Sérgio Pereira , Carlos A. Silva