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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) helps ophthalmologists assess macular edema, accumulation of fluids, and lesions at microscopic resolution. Quantification of retinal fluids is necessary for OCT-guided treatment management, which relies…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-15 Reza Rasti , Armin Biglari , Mohammad Rezapourian , Ziyun Yang , Sina Farsiu

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a novel non-invasive imaging modality for the visualisation of microvasculature in vivo that has encountered broad adoption in retinal research. OCTA potential in the assessment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Ylenia Giarratano , Eleonora Bianchi , Calum Gray , Andrew Morris , Tom MacGillivray , Baljean Dhillon , Miguel O. Bernabeu

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

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a non-invasive imaging modality that extends the functionality of OCT by extracting moving red blood cell signals from surrounding static biological tissues. OCTA has emerged as a valuable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Jinpeng Liao , Tianyu Zhang , Yilong Zhang , Chunhui Li , Zhihong Huang

Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCT-A) is a non-invasive imaging technique, and has been increasingly used to image the retinal vasculature at capillary level resolution. However, automated segmentation of retinal vessels in OCT-A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-10 Yuhui Ma , Huaying Hao , Huazhu Fu , Jiong Zhang , Jianlong Yang , Jiang Liu , Yalin Zheng , Yitian Zhao

Automatic and accurate segmentation of aortic vessel tree (AVT) in computed tomography (CT) scans is crucial for early detection, diagnosis and prognosis of aortic diseases, such as aneurysms, dissections and stenosis. However, this task…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-18 Shaofeng Yuan , Feng Yang

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

From diagnosing neovascular diseases to detecting white matter lesions, accurate tiny vessel segmentation in fundus images is critical. Promising results for accurate vessel segmentation have been known. However, their effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Suraj Mishra , Danny Z. Chen , X. Sharon Hu

The ultra-wide optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) has become an important imaging modality in diabetic retinopathy (DR) diagnosis. However, there are few researches focusing on automatic DR analysis using ultra-wide OCTA. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Junlin Hou , Fan Xiao , Jilan Xu , Yuejie Zhang , Haidong Zou , Rui Feng

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is essential for diagnosing conditions such as glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and age-related macular degeneration. Accurate retinal layer segmentation enables quantitative biomarkers critical for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 S M Asiful Islam Saky , Ugyen Tshering

Accurate cerebrovascular segmentation from Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA) and Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA) is of great significance in diagnosis and treatment of cerebrovascular pathology. Due to the complexity and topology…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Zhanqiang Guo , Yao Luan , Jianjiang Feng , Wangsheng Lu , Yin Yin , Guangming Yang , Jie Zhou

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Liyang Fang , Jianlong Yang , Lei Mou , Huihong Zhang , Zhenjie Chai , Zhi Chen , Jiang Liu

Carotid artery vessel wall thickness measurement is an essential step in the monitoring of patients with atherosclerosis. This requires accurate segmentation of the vessel wall, i.e., the region between an artery's lumen and outer wall, in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-03 Dieuwertje Alblas , Christoph Brune , Jelmer M. Wolterink

The reliable segmentation of retinal vasculature can provide the means to diagnose and monitor the progression of a variety of diseases affecting the blood vessel network, including diabetes and hypertension. We leverage the power of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-23 Ali Hatamizadeh , Hamid Hosseini , Zhengyuan Liu , Steven D. Schwartz , Demetri Terzopoulos

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

Automated blood vessel segmentation is vital for biomedical imaging, as vessel changes indicate many pathologies. Still, precise segmentation is difficult due to the complexity of vascular structures, anatomical variations across patients,…

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) as retina imaging technology is currently used by ophthalmologist as a non-invasive and non-contact method for diagnosis of agerelated degeneration (AMD) and diabetic macular edema (DME) diseases. Fluid…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Elyas Rashno , Abdolreza Rashno , Sadegh Fadaei

In recent years, the incidence of vision-threatening eye diseases has risen dramatically, necessitating scalable and accurate screening solutions. This paper presents a comprehensive study on deep learning architectures for the automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Mohammad Sadegh Gholizadeh , Amir Arsalan Rezapour

Despite significant advances in artificial intelligence (AI) for computer vision, its application in medical imaging has been limited by the burden and limits of expert-generated labels. We used images from optical coherence tomography…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Cecilia S. Lee , Ariel J. Tyring , Yue Wu , Sa Xiao , Ariel S. Rokem , Nicolaas P. Deruyter , Qinqin Zhang , Adnan Tufail , Ruikang K. Wang , Aaron Y. Lee

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive 3D modality widely used in ophthalmology for imaging the retina. Achieving automated, anatomically coherent retinal layer segmentation on OCT is important for the detection and monitoring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Botond Fazekas , Guilherme Aresta , Dmitrii Lachinov , Sophie Riedl , Julia Mai , Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth , Hrvoje Bogunovic