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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 an encoder-decoder framework for the segmentation of blood vessels in retinal images that relies on the extraction of large-scale patches at multiple image-scales during training. Experiments on three fundus image datasets…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 Björn Browatzki , Jörn-Philipp Lies , Christian Wallraven

Timely and affordable computer-aided diagnosis of retinal diseases is pivotal in precluding blindness. Accurate retinal vessel segmentation plays an important role in disease progression and diagnosis of such vision-threatening diseases. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Tariq M. Khan , Syed S. Naqvi , Antonio Robles-Kelly , Imran Razzak

Many deep learning based methods have been proposed for retinal vessel segmentation, however few of them focus on the connectivity of segmented vessels, which is quite important for a practical computer-aided diagnosis system on retinal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Rui Xu , Tiantian Liu , Xinchen Ye , Yen-Wei Chen

Retinal fundus images provide valuable insights into the human eye's interior structure and crucial features, such as blood vessels, optic disk, macula, and fovea. However, accurate segmentation of retinal blood vessels can be challenging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Atifa Kalsoom , M. A. Iftikhar , Amjad Ali , Zubair Shah , Shidin Balakrishnan , Hazrat Ali

Vessel segmentation of retinal images is a key diagnostic capability in ophthalmology. This problem faces several challenges including low contrast, variable vessel size and thickness, and presence of interfering pathology such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Venkateswararao Cherukuri , Vijay Kumar BG , Raja Bala , Vishal Monga

The segmentation of the retinal vasculature from eye fundus images represents one of the most fundamental tasks in retinal image analysis. Over recent years, increasingly complex approaches based on sophisticated Convolutional Neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-07 Adrian Galdran , André Anjos , José Dolz , Hadi Chakor , Hervé Lombaert , Ismail Ben Ayed

Precision in identifying and differentiating micro and macro blood vessels in the retina is crucial for the diagnosis of retinal diseases, although it poses a significant challenge. Current autoencoding-based segmentation approaches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Rui Yang , Shunpu Zhang

This paper addresses representational block named Hierarchical-Split Block, which can be taken as a plug-and-play block to upgrade existing convolutional neural networks, improves model performance significantly in a network.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Pengcheng Yuan , Shufei Lin , Cheng Cui , Yuning Du , Ruoyu Guo , Dongliang He , Errui Ding , Shumin Han

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

Corneal endothelial cell segmentation plays a vital role inquantifying clinical indicators such as cell density, coefficient of variation,and hexagonality. However, the corneal endothelium's uneven reflectionand the subject's tremor and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yinglin Zhang , Risa Higashita , Huazhu Fu , Yanwu Xu , Yang Zhang , Haofeng Liu , Jian Zhang , Jiang Liu

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

Medical image segmentation plays an important role in computer-aided diagnosis. Traditional convolution-based U-shape segmentation architectures are usually limited by the local receptive field. Existing vision transformers have been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Qing Xu , Yanming Chen , Yue Li , Ziyu Liu , Zhenye Lou , Yixuan Zhang , Xiangjian He

Segmentation has been a major task in neuroimaging. A large number of automated methods have been developed for segmenting healthy and diseased brain tissues. In recent years, deep learning techniques have attracted a lot of attention as a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-05 Jimit Doshi , Guray Erus , Mohamad Habes , Christos Davatzikos

Recently, many methods based on hand-designed convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved promising results in automatic retinal vessel segmentation. However, these CNNs remain constrained in capturing retinal vessels in complex…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-14 Jiahong Wei , Zhun Fan

The U-Net architecture and its variants have remained state-of-the-art (SOTA) for retinal vessel segmentation over the past decade. In this study, we introduce a Full-Scale Guided Network (FSG-Net), where a novel feature representation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Sunyong Seo , Sangwook Yoo , Huisu Yoon

Accurate detection of retinal vessels plays a critical role in reflecting a wide range of health status indicators in the clinical diagnosis of ocular diseases. Recently, advances in deep learning have led to a surge in retinal vessel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiawen Liu , Yuanbo Zeng , Jiaming Liang , Yizhen Yang , Yiheng Zhang , Enhui Cai , Xiaoqi Sheng , Hongmin Cai

Blood vessel segmentation is crucial for many diagnostic and research applications. In recent years, CNN-based models have leaded to breakthroughs in the task of segmentation, however, such methods usually lose high-frequency information…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Mo Zhang , Fei Yu , Jie Zhao , Li Zhang , Quanzheng Li

Automatic retinal layer segmentation with medical images, such as optical coherence tomography (OCT) images, serves as an important tool for diagnosing ophthalmic diseases. However, it is challenging to achieve accurate segmentation due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Xiang He , Weiye Song , Yiming Wang , Fabio Poiesi , Ji Yi , Manishi Desai , Quanqing Xu , Kongzheng Yang , Yi Wan

Recently, deep learning methods have been widely used for tumor segmentation of multimodal medical images with promising results. However, most existing methods are limited by insufficient representational ability, specific modality number…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Jun Shi , Hongyu Kan , Shulan Ruan , Ziqi Zhu , Minfan Zhao , Liang Qiao , Zhaohui Wang , Hong An , Xudong Xue