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Segmentation is a fundamental task in medical image analysis. However, most existing methods focus on primary region extraction and ignore edge information, which is useful for obtaining accurate segmentation. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Zhijie Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Hang Dai , Jianbing Shen , Yanwei Pang , Ling Shao

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…

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Medical image segmentation is crucial for disease diagnosis and monitoring. Though effective, the current segmentation networks such as UNet struggle with capturing long-range features. More accurate models such as TransUNet, Swin-UNet, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Khaled Alrfou , Tian Zhao

Automatic segmentation of retina vessels plays a pivotal role in clinical diagnosis of prevalent eye diseases, such as, Diabetic Retinopathy or Age-related Macular Degeneration. Due to the complex construction of blood vessels, with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Benjamin Hou

Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is challenging because of the complex texture of retinal vessels and low imaging contrast. Previous methods generally refine segmentation results by cascading multiple deep networks, which are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-07 Mingxing Li , Shenglong Zhou , Chang Chen , Yueyi Zhang , Dong Liu , Zhiwei Xiong

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

Effective retinal vessel segmentation requires a sophisticated integration of global contextual awareness and local vessel continuity. To address this challenge, we propose the Graph Capsule Convolution Network (GCC-UNet), which merges…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Xinxu Wei , Xi Lin , Haiyun Liu , Shixuan Zhao , Yongjie Li

Deep learning has made a breakthrough in medical image segmentation in recent years due to its ability to extract high-level features without the need for prior knowledge. In this context, U-Net is one of the most advanced medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Prithul Sarker , Sushmita Sarker , George Bebis , Alireza Tavakkoli

As an essential prerequisite for developing a medical intelligent assistant system, medical image segmentation has received extensive research and concentration from the neural network community. A series of UNet-like networks with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-25 Ledan Qian , Xiao Zhou , Yi Li , Zhongyi Hu

We identify two major limitations in the existing studies on retinal vessel segmentation: (1) Most existing works are restricted to one modality, i.e., the Color Fundus (CF). However, multi-modality retinal images are used every day in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Bo Wen , Anna Heinke , Akshay Agnihotri , Dirk-Uwe Bartsch , William Freeman , Truong Nguyen , Cheolhong An

Objective: Diabetic macular edema (DME) is the leading cause of severe visual impairment in patients with diabetes. Quantification of retinal fluid, particularly intraretinal fluid (IRF) and subretinal fluid (SRF), plays a critical role in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Zijun Lei , Zikang Xu , Liang Zhang , Ge Song , Hanyu Guo , Dan Cao , Yujia Zhou , Qianjin Feng

Many eye diseases like Diabetic Macular Edema (DME), Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD), and Glaucoma manifest in the retina, can cause irreversible blindness or severely impair the central version. The Optical Coherence Tomography…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-10 Nchongmaje Ndipenoch , Alina Miron , Zidong Wang , Yongmin Li

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

The accurate segmentation of retinal blood vessels plays a crucial role in the early diagnosis and treatment of various ophthalmic diseases. Designing a network model for this task requires meticulous tuning and extensive experimentation to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Tingting Wu , Ruyi Min , Peixuan Song , Hengtao Guo , Tieyong Zeng , Feng-Lei Fan

A fundus image usually contains the optic disc, pathologies and other structures in addition to vessels to be segmented. This study proposes a deep network for vessel segmentation, whose architecture is inspired by inception modules. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-21 Fatmatulzehra Uslu

Neural segmentation has a great impact on the smooth implementation of local anesthesia surgery. At present, the network for the segmentation includes U-NET [1] and SegNet [2]. U-NET network has short training time and less training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Chenyang Xu , Mengxin Li

Image segmentation is a branch of computer vision that is widely used in real world applications including biomedical image processing. With recent advancement of deep learning, image segmentation has achieved at a very high level…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-25 Nima Hassanpour , Abouzar Ghavami

Clinical screening with low-quality fundus images is challenging and significantly leads to misdiagnosis. This paper addresses the issue of improving the retinal image quality and vessel segmentation through retinal image restoration. More…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Alnur Alimanov , Md Baharul Islam

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

We present a cascade deep neural network to segment retinal vessels in volumetric optical coherence tomography (OCT). Two types of knowledge are infused into the network for confining the searching regions. (1) Histology. The retinal…

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