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The automatic segmentation of blood vessels in fundus images can help analyze the condition of retinal vasculature, which is crucial for identifying various systemic diseases like hypertension, diabetes, etc. Despite the success of Deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Ashish Kumar , R. K. Agrawal , Leve Joseph

Noisy data and the similarity in the ocular appearances caused by different ophthalmic pathologies pose significant challenges for an automated expert system to accurately detect retinal diseases. In addition, the lack of knowledge…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Sharif Amit Kamran , Alireza Tavakkoli , Stewart Lee Zuckerbrod

Cerebrovascular pathology significantly contributes to cognitive decline and neurological disorders, underscoring the need for advanced tools to assess vascular integrity. Three-dimensional Time-of-Flight Magnetic Resonance Angiography (3D…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Abrar Faiyaz , Nhat Hoang , Giovanni Schifitto , Md Nasir Uddin

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

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

Retinal blood vessel segmentation can extract clinically relevant information from fundus images. As manual tracing is cumbersome, algorithms based on Convolution Neural Networks have been developed. Such studies have used small publicly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-24 Jeremiah Fadugba , Patrick Köhler , Lisa Koch , Petru Manescu , Philipp Berens

Objective: Diabetic macular edema (DME) is the leading cause of severe visual impairment in patients with diabetes. Quantification of retinal fluid, particularly intraretinal fluid (IRF) and subretinal fluid (SRF), plays a critical role in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Zijun Lei , Zikang Xu , Liang Zhang , Ge Song , Hanyu Guo , Dan Cao , Yujia Zhou , Qianjin Feng

The change of retinal vasculature is an early sign of many vascular and systematic diseases, such as diabetes and hypertension. Different behaviors of retinal arterioles and venules form an important metric to measure the disease severity.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Meng Li , Yan Zhang , Haicheng She , Jinqiong Zhou , Jia Jia , Danmei He , Li Zhang

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

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

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

The analysis of retinal images for the diagnosis of various diseases is one of the emerging areas of research. Recently, the research direction has been inclined towards investigating several changes in retinal blood vessels in subjects…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Mehwish Mehmood , Shahzaib Iqbal , Tariq Mahmood Khan , Ivor Spence , Muhammad Fahim

Diabetic retinopathy refers to the pathology of the retina induced by diabetes and is one of the leading causes of preventable blindness in the world. Early detection of diabetic retinopathy is critical to avoid vision problem through…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Malik A. Manan , Tariq M. Khan , Ahsan Saadat , Muhammad Arsalan , Syed S. Naqvi

Measures of vascular tortuosity--how curved and twisted a vessel is--are associated with a variety of vascular diseases. Consequently, measurements of vessel tortuosity that are accurate and comparable across modality, resolution, and size…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-01-07 Alexander Brummer , David Hunt , Van Savage

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

Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) is a chronic metabolic disorder that can lead to blindness and cardiovascular disease. Information about early stage T2D might be present in retinal fundus images, but to what extent these images can be used for a…

The detection of retinal vessel is of great importance in the diagnosis and treatment of many ocular diseases. Many methods have been proposed for vessel detection. However, most of the algorithms neglect the connectivity of the vessels,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-29 Lei Mou , Li Chen , Jun Cheng , Zaiwang Gu , Yitian Zhao , Jiang Liu

Accurate measurements of abnormalities like Artery-Vein ratio and tortuosity in fundus images is an actively researched task. Most of the research seems to compute such features independently. However, in this work, we have devised a fully…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-06 Aashis Khanal , Rolando Estrada

Vascular segmentation extracts blood vessels from images and serves as the basis for diagnosing various diseases, like ophthalmic diseases. Ophthalmologists often require high-resolution segmentation results for analysis, which leads to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Yan Hu , Zhongxi Qiu , Dan Zeng , Li Jiang , Chen Lin , Jiang Liu

Characterizing blood vessels in digital images is important for the diagnosis of many types of diseases as well as for assisting current researches regarding vascular systems. The automated analysis of blood vessels typically requires the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-12 Matheus V. da Silva , Julie Ouellette , Baptiste Lacoste , Cesar H. Comin