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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is widely used for diagnosing and monitoring retinal diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The segmentation of biomarkers such as layers and lesions is essential for patient diagnosis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Botond Fazekas , Guilherme Aresta , Philipp Seeböck , Julia Mai , Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth , Hrvoje Bogunović

State-of-the-art methods for semantic segmentation of images involve computationally intensive neural network architectures. Most of these methods are not adaptable to high-resolution image segmentation due to memory and other computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Siddharth Saravanan , Aditya Challa , Sravan Danda

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

Segmentation of multiple anatomical structures is of great importance in medical image analysis. In this study, we proposed a $\mathcal{W}$-net to simultaneously segment both the optic disc (OD) and the exudates in retinal images based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-12 Hongwei Zhao , Chengtao Peng , Lei Liu , Bin Li

High-resolution Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images are crucial for ophthalmology studies but are limited by their relatively narrow field of view (FoV). Image mosaicking is a technique for aligning multiple overlapping images to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-29 Jiacheng Wang , Hao Li , Dewei Hu , Yuankai K. Tao , Ipek Oguz

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

The growing burden of myopia and retinal diseases necessitates more accessible and efficient eye screening solutions. This study presents a compact, dual-function optical device that integrates fundus photography and refractive error…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Boyuan Peng , Jiaju Chen , Yiwei Zhang , Cuiyi Peng , Junyang Li , Jiaming Deng , Peiwu Qin

Fundus images are essential for the early screening and detection of eye diseases. While deep learning models using fundus images have significantly advanced the diagnosis of multiple eye diseases, variations in images from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Qian Zeng , Le Zhang , Yipeng Liu , Ce Zhu , Fan Zhang

Fundus photography is prone to suffer from image quality degradation that impacts clinical examination performed by ophthalmologists or intelligent systems. Though enhancement algorithms have been developed to promote fundus observation on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Heng Li , Haofeng Liu , Huazhu Fu , Yanwu Xu , Hui Shu , Ke Niu , Yan Hu , Jiang Liu

Conditional computation and modular networks have been recently proposed for multitask learning and other problems as a way to decompose problem solving into multiple reusable computational blocks. We propose a new approach for learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Andrey Zhmoginov , Dina Bashkirova , Mark Sandler

Diabetic retinopathy is the most important complication of diabetes. Early diagnosis of retinal lesions helps to avoid visual loss or blindness. Due to high-resolution and small-size lesion regions, applying existing methods, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Zizheng Yan , Xiaoguang Han , Changmiao Wang , Yuda Qiu , Zixiang Xiong , Shuguang Cui

Transfer learning with models pretrained on ImageNet has become a standard practice in computer vision. Transfer learning refers to fine-tuning pretrained weights of a neural network on a downstream task, typically unrelated to ImageNet.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xander Coetzer , Arné Schreuder , Anna Sergeevna Bosman

Segmentation of optic disc (OD) and optic cup (OC) is critical in automated fundus image analysis system. Existing state-of-the-arts focus on designing deep neural networks with one or multiple dense prediction branches. Such kind of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Qing Liu , Beiji Zou , Yang Zhao , Yixiong Liang

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

As a non-invasive imaging modality, optical coherence tomography (OCT) can provide micrometer-resolution 3D images of retinal structures. Therefore it is commonly used in the diagnosis of retinal diseases associated with edema in and under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Donghuan Lu , Morgan Heisler , Sieun Lee , Gavin Ding , Marinko V. Sarunic , Mirza Faisal Beg

The visual analysis of retina and of its vascular characteristics is important in the diagnosis and monitoring of diseases of visual perception. In the related medical diagnoses, the digital processing of the fundus images is used to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-06 Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

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

This paper attacks an emerging challenge of multi-modal retinal disease recognition. Given a multi-modal case consisting of a color fundus photo (CFP) and an array of OCT B-scan images acquired during an eye examination, we aim to build a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Xirong Li , Yang Zhou , Jie Wang , Hailan Lin , Jianchun Zhao , Dayong Ding , Weihong Yu , Youxin Chen

Ocular pathology detection from fundus images presents an important challenge on health care. In fact, each pathology has different severity stages that may be deduced by verifying the existence of specific lesions. Each lesion is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-08 Yaroub Elloumi , Mohamed Akil , Henda Boudegga

Color fundus photography (CFP) is central to diagnosing and monitoring retinal disease, yet its acquisition variability (e.g., illumination changes) often degrades image quality, which motivates robust enhancement methods. Unpaired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xuanzhao Dong , Wenhui Zhu , Yujian Xiong , Xiwen Chen , Hao Wang , Xin Li , Jiajun Cheng , Zhipeng Wang , Shao Tang , Oana Dumitrascu , Yalin Wang