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Coastal water segmentation from satellite imagery presents unique challenges due to complex spectral characteristics and irregular boundary patterns. Traditional RGB-based approaches often suffer from training instability and poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Zhen Tian , Christos Anagnostopoulos , Qiyuan Wang , Zhiwei Gao

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 fundus photography enhancement is important for diagnosing and monitoring retinal diseases. However, early approaches to retinal image enhancement, such as those based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), often struggle to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Xuanzhao Dong , Wenhui Zhu , Xin Li , Guoxin Sun , Yi Su , Oana M. Dumitrascu , Yalin Wang

We identify and address three research gaps in the field of vessel segmentation for funduscopy. The first focuses on the task of inference on high-resolution fundus images for which only a limited set of ground-truth data is publicly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Tim Laibacher , André Anjos

The segmentation of the retinal vasculature from eye fundus images represents one of the most fundamental tasks in retinal image analysis. Over recent years, increasingly complex approaches based on sophisticated Convolutional Neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-07 Adrian Galdran , André Anjos , José Dolz , Hadi Chakor , Hervé Lombaert , Ismail Ben Ayed

Retinal vessel segmentation is an indispensable step for automatic detection of retinal diseases with fundoscopic images. Though many approaches have been proposed, existing methods tend to miss fine vessels or allow false positives at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Jaemin Son , Sang Jun Park , Kyu-Hwan Jung

Accurate retinal vessel (RV) segmentation is a crucial step in the quantitative assessment of retinal vasculature, which is needed for the early detection of retinal diseases and other conditions. Numerous studies have been conducted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Trung Dang , Huy Hoang Nguyen , Aleksei Tiulpin

Generalization in medical segmentation models is challenging due to limited annotated datasets and imaging variability. To address this, we propose Retinal Layout-Aware Diffusion (RLAD), a novel diffusion-based framework for generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jonathan Fhima , Jan Van Eijgen , Lennert Beeckmans , Thomas Jacobs , Moti Freiman , Luis Filipe Nakayama , Ingeborg Stalmans , Chaim Baskin , Joachim A. Behar

Retinal fundus images are widely used for the clinical screening and diagnosis of eye diseases. However, fundus images captured by operators with various levels of experience have a large variation in quality. Low-quality fundus images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-10 Ziyi Shen , Huazhu Fu , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) grading from fundus images has attracted increasing interest in both academic and industrial communities. Most convolutional neural network (CNN) based algorithms treat DR grading as a classification task via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Yehui Yang , Fangxin Shang , Binghong Wu , Dalu Yang , Lei Wang , Yanwu Xu , Wensheng Zhang , Tianzhu Zhang

Many deep learning based methods have been proposed for retinal vessel segmentation, however few of them focus on the connectivity of segmented vessels, which is quite important for a practical computer-aided diagnosis system on retinal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Rui Xu , Tiantian Liu , Xinchen Ye , Yen-Wei Chen

Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is an important task for many computer-aided diagnosis systems. Yet, it is still a challenging problem due to the complex vessel structures of an eye. Numerous vessel segmentation methods have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Ali Karaali , Rozenn Dahyot , Donal J. Sexton

Retinal fundus images can be an invaluable diagnosis tool for screening epidemic diseases like hypertension or diabetes. And they become especially useful when the arterioles and venules they depict are clearly identified and annotated.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Angel Victor Juanco Muller , Joao F. C. Mota , Keith A. Goatman , Corne Hoogendoorn

Vision impairment due to pathological damage of the retina can largely be prevented through periodic screening using fundus color imaging. However the challenge with large scale screening is the inability to exhaustively detect fine blood…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Debapriya Maji , Anirban Santara , Pabitra Mitra , Debdoot Sheet

Vascular structures in the retina contain important information for the detection and analysis of ocular diseases, including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. Commonly used modalities in diagnosis of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Erick O. Rodrigues , Aura Conci , Panos Liatsis

The caliber and configuration of retinal blood vessels serve as important biomarkers for various diseases and medical conditions. A thorough analysis of the retinal vasculature requires the segmentation of the blood vessels and their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 José Morano , Guilherme Aresta , Hrvoje Bogunović

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

Retinal imaging has emerged as a promising method of addressing this challenge, taking advantage of the unique structure of the retina. The retina is an embryonic extension of the central nervous system, providing a direct in vivo window…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Syed Javed , Tariq M. Khan , Abdul Qayyum , Arcot Sowmya , Imran Razzak

Data augmentation plays a crucial role in addressing the challenge of limited expert-annotated datasets in deep learning applications for retinal Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) scans. This work exhaustively investigates the impact of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Markus Unterdechler , Botond Fazekas , Guilherme Aresta , Hrvoje Bogunović

This paper presents a comparative analysis of deep learning strategies for detecting hypertensive retinopathy from fundus images, a central task in the HRDC challenge~\cite{qian2025hrdc}. We investigate three distinct approaches: a custom…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yanqiao Zhu