English
Related papers

Related papers: RV-GAN: Segmenting Retinal Vascular Structure in F…

200 papers

Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) are extremely used in the medical field to detect and better understand diseases. In order to fasten automatic processing of scans and enhance medical research, this project focuses on automatically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-16 Antoine Delplace

In this study, a supervised retina blood vessel segmentation process was performed on the green channel of the RGB image using artificial neural network (ANN). The green channel is preferred because the retinal vessel structures can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-17 Esra Kaya , İsmail Sarıtaş , Ilker Ali Ozkan

Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is challenging because of the complex texture of retinal vessels and low imaging contrast. Previous methods generally refine segmentation results by cascading multiple deep networks, which are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-07 Mingxing Li , Shenglong Zhou , Chang Chen , Yueyi Zhang , Dong Liu , Zhiwei Xiong

The vascular structure of blood vessels is important in diagnosing retinal conditions such as glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy. Accurate segmentation of these vessels can help in detecting retinal objects such as the optic disc and optic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 Abdullah Sarhan , Jon Rokne , Reda Alhajj , Andrew Crichton

Image processing techniques provide important assistance to physicians and relieve their workload in different tasks. In particular, identifying objects of interest such as lesions and anatomical structures from the image is a challenging…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Meysam Tavakoli , Mahdieh Nazar

Diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration pose a significant risk to vision, highlighting the importance of precise segmentation of retinal vessels for the tracking and diagnosis of progression. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Tariq M. Khan , Muhammad Arsalan , Shahzaib Iqbal , Imran Razzak , Erik Meijering

Deep learning algorithms produces state-of-the-art results for different machine learning and computer vision tasks. To perform well on a given task, these algorithms require large dataset for training. However, deep learning algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Talha Iqbal , Hazrat Ali

Contemporary deep learning based medical image segmentation algorithms require hours of annotation labor by domain experts. These data hungry deep models perform sub-optimally in the presence of limited amount of labeled data. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Avisek Lahiri , Vineet Jain , Arnab Mondal , Prabir Kumar Biswas

Unpaired image-to-image translation of retinal images can efficiently increase the training dataset for deep-learning-based multi-modal retinal registration methods. Our method integrates a vessel segmentation network into the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Aline Sindel , Andreas Maier , Vincent Christlein

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

Recent advancements in ophthalmology foundation models such as RetFound have demonstrated remarkable diagnostic capabilities but require massive datasets for effective pre-training, creating significant barriers for development and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Qingshan Hou , Meng Wang , Peng Cao , Zou Ke , Xiaoli Liu , Huazhu Fu , Osmar R. Zaiane

Recently, many methods based on hand-designed convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved promising results in automatic retinal vessel segmentation. However, these CNNs remain constrained in capturing retinal vessels in complex…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-14 Jiahong Wei , Zhun Fan

Video super-resolution (VSR) has become one of the most critical problems in video processing. In the deep learning literature, recent works have shown the benefits of using adversarial-based and perceptual losses to improve the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Alice Lucas , Santiago Lopez Tapia , Rafael Molina , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

The study of the retinal vasculature is a fundamental stage in the screening and diagnosis of many diseases. A complete retinal vascular analysis requires to segment and classify the blood vessels of the retina into arteries and veins…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-21 José Morano , Álvaro S. Hervella , Jorge Novo , José Rouco

Retinal artery/vein (A/V) classification lays the foundation for the quantitative analysis of retinal vessels, which is associated with potential risks of various cardiovascular and cerebral diseases. The topological connection…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-30 Wenting Chen , Shuang Yu , Junde Wu , Kai Ma , Cheng Bian , Chunyan Chu , Linlin Shen , Yefeng Zheng

Objective Automatic artery/vein (A/V) segmentation from fundus images is required to track blood vessel changes occurring with many pathologies including retinopathy and cardiovascular pathologies. One of the clinical measures that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Fantin Girard , Conrad Kavalec , Farida Cheriet

Automatic retinal layer segmentation with medical images, such as optical coherence tomography (OCT) images, serves as an important tool for diagnosing ophthalmic diseases. However, it is challenging to achieve accurate segmentation due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Xiang He , Weiye Song , Yiming Wang , Fabio Poiesi , Ji Yi , Manishi Desai , Quanqing Xu , Kongzheng Yang , Yi Wan

Magnetic resonance imaging plays an important role in computer-aided diagnosis and brain exploration. However, limited by hardware, scanning time and cost, it's challenging to acquire high-resolution (HR) magnetic resonance (MR) image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Senrong You , Yong Liu , Baiying Lei , Shuqiang Wang

Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is an asymptomatic retinal disease which may result in loss of vision. There is limited access to high-quality relevant retinal images and poor understanding of the features defining sub-classes of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Yi-Chieh Liu , Hao-Hsiang Yang , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Jia-Hong Huang , Meng Tian , Hiromasa Morikawa , Yi-Chang James Tsai , Jesper Tegner

Among the research efforts to segment the retinal vasculature from fundus images, deep learning models consistently achieve superior performance. However, this data-driven approach is very sensitive to domain shifts. For fundus images, such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Dewei Hu , Xing Yao , Jiacheng Wang , Yuankai K. Tao , Ipek Oguz