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Background and Objective: The condition of vessel of the human eye is an important factor for the diagnosis of ophthalmological diseases. Vessel segmentation in fundus images is a challenging task due to complex vessel structure, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Song Guo , Kai Wang , Hong Kang , Yujun Zhang , Yingqi Gao , Tao Li

Segmenting the retinal vasculature entails a trade-off between how much of the overall vascular structure we identify vs. how precisely we segment individual vessels. In particular, state-of-the-art methods tend to under-segment faint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Aashis Khanal , Rolando Estrada

Most scenes in practical applications are dynamic scenes containing moving objects, so segmenting accurately moving objects is crucial for many computer vision applications. In order to efficiently segment out all moving objects in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Chenjie Wang , Chengyuan Li , Bin Luo

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

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 visualization of liver tumors and their surrounding blood vessels is essential for noninvasive diagnosis and prognosis prediction of tumors. In medical image segmentation, there is still a lack of in-depth research on the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Haopeng Kuang , Dingkang Yang , Shunli Wang , Xiaoying Wang , Lihua Zhang

When studying the results of a segmentation algorithm using convolutional neural networks, one wonders about the reliability and consistency of the results. This leads to questioning the possibility of using such an algorithm in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-29 Nicolas Makaroff , Laurent D. Cohen

Segmenting cytoskeletal filaments in microscopy images is essential for studying their roles in cellular processes. However, this task is highly challenging due to the fine, densely packed, and intertwined nature of these structures.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-23 Achraf Ait Laydi , Louis Cueff , Mewen Crespo , Yousef El Mourabit , Hélène Bouvrais

White Matter Hyperintensities (WMH) are the most common manifestation of cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD) on the brain MRI. Accurate WMH segmentation algorithms are important to determine cSVD burden and its clinical consequences. Most…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-23 Zicong Zhang , Kimerly Powell , Changchang Yin , Shilei Cao , Dani Gonzalez , Yousef Hannawi , Ping Zhang

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

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

This contribution presents a deep learning method for the segmentation of prostate zones in MRI images based on U-Net using additive and feature pyramid attention modules, which can improve the workflow of prostate cancer detection and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Pablo Cesar Quihui-Rubio , Daniel Flores-Araiza , Miguel Gonzalez-Mendoza , Christian Mata , Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz

The Agatston score, which is the sum of the calcification in the four main coronary arteries, has been widely used in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD). However, many studies have emphasized the importance of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Doyoung Park , Jinsoo Kim , Qi Chang , Shuang Leng , Liang Zhong , Lohendran Baskaran

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

Retinal vessel segmentation is crucial for intelligent ophthalmic diagnosis, yet it faces three major challenges: insufficient multi-scale feature fusion, disruption of contextual continuity, and noise interference. This study proposes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xinran Xu , Yuliang Ma , Sifu Cai , Ming Meng , Qiang Lv , Ruoyan Shi

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

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

Lightweight retinal vessel segmentation is important for the early diagnosis of vision-threatening and systemic diseases, especially in a real-world clinical environment with limited computational resources. Although segmentation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Mehwish Mehmood , Ivor Spence , Muhammad Fahim

Salient object detection (SOD) remains an important task in computer vision, with applications ranging from image segmentation to autonomous driving. Fully convolutional network (FCN)-based methods have made remarkable progress in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Kassaw Abraham Mulat , Zhengyong Feng , Tegegne Solomon Eshetie , Ahmed Endris Hasen

In recent years, although U-Net network has made significant progress in the field of image segmentation, it still faces performance bottlenecks in remote sensing image segmentation. In this paper, we innovatively propose to introduce SimAM…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Qiming Yang , Zixin Wang , Shinan Liu , Zizheng Li