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We present a method for automated segmentation of the vasculature in retinal images. The method produces segmentations by classifying each image pixel as vessel or non-vessel, based on the pixel's feature vector. Feature vectors are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-05-23 João V. B. Soares , Jorge J. G. Leandro , Roberto M. Cesar , Herbert F. Jelinek , Michael J. Cree

Inner Retinal neurons are a most essential part of the retina and they are supplied with blood via retinal vessels. This paper primarily focuses on the segmentation of retinal vessels using a triple preprocessing approach. DRIVE database…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-26 Mahendra Kumar Gourisaria , Vinayak Singh , Manoj Sahni

Existing supervised approaches didn't make use of the low-level features which are actually effective to this task. And another deficiency is that they didn't consider the relation between pixels, which means effective features are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Boheng Zhang , Shenglei Huang , Shaohan Hu

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

Retinal blood vessels structure contains information about diseases like obesity, diabetes, hypertension and glaucoma. This information is very useful in identification and treatment of these fatal diseases. To obtain this information,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Sushil Kumar Saroj , Vikas Ratna , Rakesh Kumar , Nagendra Pratap Singh

Retinal imaging serves as a valuable tool for diagnosis of various diseases. However, reading retinal images is a difficult and time-consuming task even for experienced specialists. The fundamental step towards automated retinal image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Liangzhi Li , Manisha Verma , Yuta Nakashima , Ryo Kawasaki , Hajime Nagahara

Retinal vascular segmentation, a widely researched topic in biomedical image processing, aims to reduce the workload of ophthalmologists in treating and detecting retinal disorders. Segmenting retinal vessels presents unique challenges;…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Melaku N. Getahun , Oleg Y. Rogov , Dmitry V. Dylov , Andrey Somov , Ahmed Bouridane , Rifat Hamoudi

The segmentation of retinal vessels is of significance for doctors to diagnose the fundus diseases. However, existing methods have various problems in the segmentation of the retinal vessels, such as insufficient segmentation of retinal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Yun Jiang , Ning Tan

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

Tight-frame, a generalization of orthogonal wavelets, has been used successfully in various problems in image processing, including inpainting, impulse noise removal, super-resolution image restoration, etc. Segmentation is the process of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Xiaohao Cai , Raymond Chan , Serena Morigi , Fiorella Sgallari

Automatic segmentation of retinal blood vessels from fundus images plays an important role in the computer aided diagnosis of retinal diseases. The task of blood vessel segmentation is challenging due to the extreme variations in morphology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Avijit Dasgupta , Sonam Singh

Retinal vessel segmentation is a fundamental step in screening, diagnosis, and treatment of various cardiovascular and ophthalmic diseases. Robustness is one of the most critical requirements for practical utilization, since the test images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-29 Xu Sun , Huihui Fang , Yehui Yang , Dongwei Zhu , Lei Wang , Junwei Liu , Yanwu Xu

We have developed and trained a convolutional neural network to automatically and simultaneously segment optic disc, fovea and blood vessels. Fundus images were normalised before segmentation was performed to enforce consistency in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Jen Hong Tan , U. Rajendra Acharya , Sulatha V. Bhandary , Kuang Chua Chua , Sobha Sivaprasad

Vessel segmentation in fundus is a key diagnostic capability in ophthalmology, and there are various challenges remained in this essential task. Early approaches indicate that it is often difficult to obtain desirable segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Shaoming Zheng , Tianyang Zhang , Jiawei Zhuang , Hao Wang , Jiang Liu

Retinal vessel segmentation is of great interest for diagnosis of retinal vascular diseases. To further improve the performance of vessel segmentation, we propose IterNet, a new model based on UNet, with the ability to find obscured details…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-13 Liangzhi Li , Manisha Verma , Yuta Nakashima , Hajime Nagahara , Ryo Kawasaki

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-23 M. Hajabdollahi , R. Esfandiarpoor , S. M. R. Soroushmehr , N. Karimi , S. Samavi , K. Najarian

Computer-Aided Diagnosis systems are required to extract suitable information about retina and its changes. In particular, identifying objects of interest such as lesions and anatomical structures from the retinal images is a challenging…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Meysam Tavakoli , Mahdieh Nazar , Alireza Mehdizadeh

Vessel structure is one of the most important parts of the retina which physicians can detect many diseases by analysing its features. Localization of blood vessels in retina images is an important process in medical image analysis. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Vahid Mohammadi Safarzadeh

Segmentation of blood vessels in retinal images provides early diagnosis of diseases like glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration. Among these diseases occurrence of Glaucoma is most frequent and has serious ocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-09-07 Nilanjan Dey , Anamitra Bardhan Roy , Moumita Pal , Achintya Das