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Retinal vessel segmentation is a vital step for the diagnosis of many early eye-related diseases. In this work, we propose a new deep learning model, namely Channel Attention Residual U-Net (CAR-UNet), to accurately segment retinal vascular…

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Precision in identifying and differentiating micro and macro blood vessels in the retina is crucial for the diagnosis of retinal diseases, although it poses a significant challenge. Current autoencoding-based segmentation approaches…

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Pathological alterations in the human vascular system underlie many chronic diseases, such as atherosclerosis and aneurysms. However, manually analyzing diagnostic images of the vascular system, such as computed tomographic angiograms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Alireza Bagheri Rajeoni , Breanna Pederson , Ali Firooz , Hamed Abdollahi , Andrew K. Smith , Daniel G. Clair , Susan M. Lessner , Homayoun Valafar

Accurate vessel segmentation is crucial to assist in clinical diagnosis by medical experts. However, the intricate tree-like tubular structure of blood vessels poses significant challenges for existing segmentation algorithms. Small…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Xiao Zhang , Zhuo Jin , Shaoxuan Wu , Fengyu Wang , Guansheng Peng , Xiang Zhang , Ying Huang , JingKun Chen , Jun Feng

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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Vessel segmentation is widely used to help with vascular disease diagnosis. Vessels reconstructed using existing methods are often not sufficiently accurate to meet clinical use standards. This is because 3D vessel structures are highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-09 Gangming Zhao , Kongming Liang , Chengwei Pan , Fandong Zhang , Xianpeng Wu , Xinyang Hu , Yizhou Yu

Pulmonary vessel segmentation is important for clinical diagnosis of pulmonary diseases, while is also challenging due to the complicated structure. In this work, we present an effective framework and refinement process of pulmonary vessel…

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Coronary angiography is an indispensable assistive technique for cardiac interventional surgery. Segmentation and extraction of blood vessels from coronary angiography videos are very essential prerequisites for physicians to locate, assess…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Lu Wang , Dong-xue Liang , Xiao-lei Yin , Jing Qiu , Zhi-yun Yang , Jun-hui Xing , Jian-zeng Dong , Zhao-yuan Ma

Automated detection of curvilinear structures, e.g., blood vessels or nerve fibres, from medical and biomedical images is a crucial early step in automatic image interpretation associated to the management of many diseases. Precise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-20 Lei Mou , Yitian Zhao , Huazhu Fu , Yonghuai Liu , Jun Cheng , Yalin Zheng , Pan Su , Jianlong Yang , Li Chen , Alejandro F Frang , Masahiro Akiba , Jiang Liu

The 3D volumetric shape of the heart's left ventricle (LV) myocardium (MYO) wall provides important information for diagnosis of cardiac disease and invasive procedure navigation. Many cardiac image segmentation methods have relied on…

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Methods for automated retinal vessel segmentation play an important role in the treatment and diagnosis of many eye and systemic diseases. With the fast development of deep learning methods, more and more retinal vessel segmentation methods…

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Cardiac structure segmentation plays an important role in medical analysis procedures. Images' blurred boundaries issue always limits the segmentation performance. To address this difficult problem, we presented a novel network structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Fei Feng , Jiajia Luo

The health and function of tissue rely on its vasculature network to provide reliable blood perfusion. Volumetric imaging approaches, such as multiphoton microscopy, are able to generate detailed 3D images of blood vessels that could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Mohammad Haft-Javaherian , Linjing Fang , Victorine Muse , Chris B. Schaffer , Nozomi Nishimura , Mert R. Sabuncu

Renal compartment segmentation on CT images targets on extracting the 3D structure of renal compartments from abdominal CTA images and is of great significance to the diagnosis and treatment for kidney diseases. However, due to the unclear…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-29 Song Wang , Yuting He , Youyong Kong , Xiaomei Zhu , Shaobo Zhang , Pengfei Shao , Jean-Louis Dillenseger , Jean-Louis Coatrieux , Shuo Li , Guanyu Yang

Early detection of coronary artery disease (CAD) is critical for reducing mortality and improving patient treatment planning. While angiographic image analysis from X-rays is a common and cost-effective method for identifying cardiac…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Alvee Hassan , Rusab Sarmun , Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury , M Murugappan , Abdulrahman Alqahtani , Balamurugan Balusamy , Sohaib Bassam Zoghoul

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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Deep learning algorithms have achieved remarkable results in medical image segmentation in recent years. These networks are unable to handle with image boundaries and details with enormous parameters, resulting in poor segmentation results.…

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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…

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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…

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