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Recently deep residual learning with residual units for training very deep neural networks advanced the state-of-the-art performance on 2D image recognition tasks, e.g., object detection and segmentation. However, how to fully leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Hao Chen , Qi Dou , Lequan Yu , Pheng-Ann Heng

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

We develop a connection sensitive attention U-Net(CSAU) for accurate retinal vessel segmentation. This method improves the recent attention U-Net for semantic segmentation with four key improvements: (1) connection sensitive loss that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Ruirui Li , Mingming Li , Jiacheng Li , Yating Zhou

Segmentation of cardiac structures is one of the fundamental steps to estimate volumetric indices of the heart. This step is still performed semi-automatically in clinical routine, and is thus prone to inter- and intra-observer variability.…

Deep learning approaches have achieved state-of-the-art performance in cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) image segmentation. However, most approaches have focused on learning image intensity features for segmentation, whereas the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Jinming Duan , Ghalib Bello , Jo Schlemper , Wenjia Bai , Timothy J W Dawes , Carlo Biffi , Antonio de Marvao , Georgia Doumou , Declan P O'Regan , Daniel Rueckert

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

Artery and vein (AV) classification of retinal images is a key to necessary tasks, such as automated measurement of arteriolar-to-venular diameter ratio (AVR). This paper comprehensively reviews the state-of-the art in AV classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Nima Hatami , Michael Goldbaum

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

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

Recently developed methods for rapid continuous volumetric two-photon microscopy facilitate the observation of neuronal activity in hundreds of individual neurons and changes in blood flow in adjacent blood vessels across a large volume of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-16 Shir Gur , Lior Wolf , Lior Golgher , Pablo Blinder

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

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is widely used for diagnosing and monitoring retinal diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The segmentation of biomarkers such as layers and lesions is essential for patient diagnosis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Botond Fazekas , Guilherme Aresta , Philipp Seeböck , Julia Mai , Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth , Hrvoje Bogunović

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,…

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

Towards automated retinal screening, this paper makes an endeavor to simultaneously achieve pixel-level retinal lesion segmentation and image-level disease classification. Such a multi-task approach is crucial for accurate and clinically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Qijie Wei , Xirong Li , Weihong Yu , Xiao Zhang , Yongpeng Zhang , Bojie Hu , Bin Mo , Di Gong , Ning Chen , Dayong Ding , Youxin Chen

Deep learning techniques have shown their success in medical image segmentation since they are easy to manipulate and robust to various types of datasets. The commonly used loss functions in the deep segmentation task are pixel-wise loss…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-10 Yuan Lan , Yang Xiang , Luchan Zhang

Accurate lumbar spine segmentation is crucial for diagnosing spinal disorders. Existing methods typically use coarse-grained segmentation strategies that lack the fine detail needed for precise diagnosis. Additionally, their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Sheng Lian , Jianlong Cai , Dengfeng Pan , Guang-Yong Chen , Hao Xu , Fan Zhang , Guodong Fan , Shuo Li

We present a semi-supervised domain adaptation framework for brain vessel segmentation from different image modalities. Existing state-of-the-art methods focus on a single modality, despite the wide range of available cerebrovascular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-28 Francesco Galati , Daniele Falcetta , Rosa Cortese , Barbara Casolla , Ferran Prados , Ninon Burgos , Maria A. Zuluaga

Accurate segmentation of the ventricles from cardiac magnetic resonance images (CMRIs) is crucial for enhancing the diagnosis and analysis of heart conditions. Deep learning-based segmentation methods have recently garnered significant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Hong Zheng , Yucheng Chen , Nan Mu , Xiaoning Li

Our research focuses on the critical field of early diagnosis of disease by examining retinal blood vessels in fundus images. While automatic segmentation of retinal blood vessels holds promise for early detection, accurate analysis remains…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Fatema Tuj Johora Faria , Mukaffi Bin Moin , Pronay Debnath , Asif Iftekher Fahim , Faisal Muhammad Shah