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State-of-the-art methods for retinal vessel segmentation mainly rely on manually labeled vessels as the ground truth for supervised training. The quality of manual labels plays an essential role in the segmentation accuracy, while in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-06 Yunqiao Yang , Zhiwei Wang , Jingen Liu , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Xin Yang

Deep learning (DL) based semantic segmentation methods have been providing state-of-the-art performance in the last few years. More specifically, these techniques have been successfully applied to medical image classification, segmentation,…

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The task of localizing and categorizing objects in medical images often remains formulated as a semantic segmentation problem. This approach, however, only indirectly solves the coarse localization task by predicting pixel-level scores,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Paul F. Jaeger , Simon A. A. Kohl , Sebastian Bickelhaupt , Fabian Isensee , Tristan Anselm Kuder , Heinz-Peter Schlemmer , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a commonly-used method of extracting high resolution retinal information. Moreover there is an increasing demand for the automated retinal layer segmentation which facilitates the retinal disease…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-30 Zeyu Fu , Yang Sun , Xiangyu Zhang , Scott Stainton , Shaun Barney , Jeffry Hogg , William Innes , Satnam Dlay

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…

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Segmenting of clinically important retinal blood vessels into arteries and veins is a prerequisite for retinal vessel analysis. Such analysis can provide potential insights and bio-markers for identifying and diagnosing various retinal eye…

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Automatic segmentation of retinal vessels in fundus images plays an important role in the diagnosis of some diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. In this paper, we propose Deformable U-Net (DUNet), which exploits the retinal vessels'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Qiangguo Jin , Zhaopeng Meng , Tuan D. Pham , Qi Chen , Leyi Wei , Ran Su

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

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 image segmentation plays an important role in automatic disease diagnosis. This task is very challenging because the complex structure and texture information are mixed in a retinal image, and distinguishing the information is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Shihao Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Yanwu Xu , Yanxia Liu , Mingkui Tan

Accurate segmentation of the blood vessels of the retina is an important step in clinical diagnosis of ophthalmic diseases. Many deep learning frameworks have come up for retinal blood vessels segmentation tasks. However, the complex…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-08 Ting Zhang , Jun Li , Yi Zhao , Nan Chen , Han Zhou , Hongtao Xu , Zihao Guan , Changcai Yang , Lanyan Xue , Riqing Chen , Lifang Wei

Retinal vessel information is helpful in retinal disease screening and diagnosis. Retinal vessel segmentation provides useful information about vessels and can be used by physicians during intraocular surgery and retinal diagnostic…

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Depth completion aims to recover dense depth maps from sparse ones, where color images are often used to facilitate this task. Recent depth methods primarily focus on image guided learning frameworks. However, blurry guidance in the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Zhiqiang Yan , Xiang Li , Le Hui , Zhenyu Zhang , Jun Li , Jian Yang

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

Vascular segmentation represents a crucial clinical task, yet its automation remains challenging. Because of the recent strides in deep learning, vesselness filters, which can significantly aid the learning process, have been overlooked.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Guillaume Garret , Antoine Vacavant , Carole Frindel

Vascular segmentation extracts blood vessels from images and serves as the basis for diagnosing various diseases, like ophthalmic diseases. Ophthalmologists often require high-resolution segmentation results for analysis, which leads to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Yan Hu , Zhongxi Qiu , Dan Zeng , Li Jiang , Chen Lin , Jiang Liu

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

Deep learning techniques have shown great potential in medical image processing, particularly through accurate and reliable image segmentation on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans or computed tomography (CT) scans, which allow the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Yang Liu , Ersi Zhang , Lulu Xu , Chufan Xiao , Xiaoyun Zhong , Lijin Lian , Fang Li , Bin Jiang , Yuhan Dong , Lan Ma , Qiming Huang , Ming Xu , Yongbing Zhang , Dongmei Yu , Chenggang Yan , Peiwu Qin

The accurate segmentation of retinal vessels in fundus images is a great challenge in medical image segmentation tasks due to their highly complex structure from other organs.Currently, deep-learning based methods for retinal cessel…

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