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Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is a challenging problem in color fundus image analysis. An automatic retinal vessel segmentation system can effectively facilitate clinical diagnosis and ophthalmological research. Technically, this…

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Accurately segmenting blood vessels in retinal fundus images is crucial in the early screening, diagnosing, and evaluating some ocular diseases, yet it poses a nontrivial uncertainty for the segmentation task due to various factors such as…

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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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Retinal vessel segmentation plays an imaportant role in the field of retinal image analysis because changes in retinal vascular structure can aid in the diagnosis of diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. In recent research, numerous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Changlu Guo , Márton Szemenyei , Yugen Yi , Ying Xue , Wei Zhou , Yangyuan Li

Shape graphs are complex geometrical structures commonly found in biological and anatomical systems. A shape graph is a collection of nodes, some connected by curvilinear edges with arbitrary shapes. Their high complexity stems from the…

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Automatic analysis of retinal blood images is of vital importance in diagnosis tasks of retinopathy. Segmenting vessels accurately is a fundamental step in analysing retinal images. However, it is usually difficult due to various imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Yishuo Zhang , Albert C. S. Chung

Analysis of retinal fundus images is essential for eye-care physicians in the diagnosis, care and treatment of patients. Accurate fundus and/or retinal vessel maps give rise to longitudinal studies able to utilize multimedia image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Henry A Leopold , Jeff Orchard , John S Zelek , Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

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

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

Medical ultrasound (US) is widely used to evaluate and stage vascular diseases, in particular for the preliminary screening program, due to the advantage of being radiation-free. However, automatic segmentation of small tubular structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Zhongliang Jiang , Felix Duelmer , Nassir Navab

In this paper, we present a novel neural network architecture for retinal vessel segmentation that improves over the state of the art on two benchmark datasets, is the first to run in real time on high resolution images, and its small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Tim Laibacher , Tillman Weyde , Sepehr Jalali

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in image analysis and clinical practice. The current state-of-the-art techniques are based on U-shape type encoder-decoder networks with skip connections, called U-Net. Despite the powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Chun-Wun Cheng , Christina Runkel , Lihao Liu , Raymond H Chan , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

Medical images often exhibit low and blurred contrast between lesions and surrounding tissues, with considerable variation in lesion edges and shapes even within the same disease, leading to significant challenges in segmentation.…

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Retinal Vessel Segmentation is important for the diagnosis of various diseases. The research on retinal vessel segmentation focuses mainly on the improvement of the segmentation model which is usually based on U-Net architecture. In our…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 Enes Sadi Uysal , M. Şafak Bilici , B. Selin Zaza , M. Yiğit Özgenç , Onur Boyar

Segmenting the retinal vasculature entails a trade-off between how much of the overall vascular structure we identify vs. how precisely we segment individual vessels. In particular, state-of-the-art methods tend to under-segment faint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Aashis Khanal , Rolando Estrada

Medical image segmentation models are typically optimised with voxel-wise losses that constrain predictions only in the output space. This leaves latent feature representations largely unconstrained, potentially limiting generalisation. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Puru Vaish , Amin Ranem , Felix Meister , Tobias Heimann , Christoph Brune , Jelmer M. Wolterink

Blood vessel segmentation and -tracing are essential tasks in many medical imaging applications. Although numerous methods exist, the prevailing segment-then-fix paradigm is fundamentally limited regarding its suitability for modeling the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Rajalakshmi Palaniappan , Christoph Karg , Nemesio Navarro-Arambula , Peter Hirsch , Kristin Kraeker , Lisa Mais , Dagmar Kainmueller

Segmentation of retinal vessels from retinal fundus images is the key step in the automatic retinal image analysis. In this paper, we propose a new unsupervised automatic method to segment the retinal vessels from retinal fundus images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Renoh Johnson Chalakkal , Waleed Abdulla

State-of-the-art segmentation methods rely on very deep networks that are not always easy to train without very large training datasets and tend to be relatively slow to run on standard GPUs. In this paper, we introduce a novel recurrent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Wei Wang , Kaicheng Yu , Joachim Hugonot , Pascal Fua , Mathieu Salzmann

The morphology of retinal blood vessels can indicate various diseases in the human body, and researchers have been working on automatic scanning and segmentation of retinal images to aid diagnosis. This project compares the performance of…

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