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This study is to demonstrate deep learning for automated artery-vein (AV) classification in optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA). The AV-Net, a fully convolutional network (FCN) based on modified U-shaped CNN architecture,…

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Existing deep learning frameworks for Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCTA) vessel segmentation are largely derived from the U-Net architecture, which serves as the foundation for most current designs. However, most of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Tuopusen Huang , Ding Ma , Xiangqian Wu

Strong speckle noise is inherent to optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging and represents a significant obstacle for accurate quantitative analysis of retinal structures which is key for advances in clinical diagnosis and monitoring of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Shijie Li , Palaiologos Alexopoulos , Anse Vellappally , Ronald Zambrano , Wollstein Gadi , Guido Gerig

Retinal neovascularization (RNV) is a vision threatening development in diabetic retinopathy (DR). Vision loss associated with RNV is preventable with timely intervention, making RNV clinical screening and monitoring a priority. Optical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Jinyi Hao , Jie Wang , Liqin Gao , Tristan T. Hormel , Yukun Guo , An-Lun Wu , Christina J. Flaxel , Steven T. Bailey , Kotaro Tsuboi , Thomas S. Hwang , Yali Jia

Purpose: We proposed a deep convolutional neural network (CNN), named Retinal Fluid Segmentation Network (ReF-Net) to segment volumetric retinal fluid on optical coherence tomography (OCT) volume. Methods: 3 x 3-mm OCT scans were acquired…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Yukun Guo , Tristan T. Hormel , Honglian Xiong , Jie Wang , Thomas S. Hwang , Yali Jia

Accurate segmentation of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images is crucial for diagnosing and monitoring retinal diseases. However, the labor-intensive nature of pixel-level annotation limits the scalability of supervised learning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jiaqi Yang , Nitish Mehta , Xiaoling Hu , Chao Chen , Chia-Ling Tsai

Structural changes in retinal blood vessels are critical biomarkers for the onset and progression of glaucoma and other ocular diseases. However, current vessel segmentation approaches largely rely on supervised learning and extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Cheng Huang , Weizheng Xie , Fan Gao , Yutong Liu , Ruoling Wu , Zeyu Han , Jingxi Qiu , Xiangxiang Wang , Zhenglin Yang , Hao Wang , Yongbin Yu

Automated detection of retinal structures, such as retinal vessels (RV), the foveal avascular zone (FAZ), and retinal vascular junctions (RVJ), are of great importance for understanding diseases of the eye and clinical decision-making. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-24 Jinkui Hao , Ting Shen , Xueli Zhu , Yonghuai Liu , Ardhendu Behera , Dan Zhang , Bang Chen , Jiang Liu , Jiong Zhang , Yitian Zhao

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive 3D modality widely used in ophthalmology for imaging the retina. Achieving automated, anatomically coherent retinal layer segmentation on OCT is important for the detection and monitoring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Botond Fazekas , Guilherme Aresta , Dmitrii Lachinov , Sophie Riedl , Julia Mai , Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth , Hrvoje Bogunovic

Retinal vessel segmentation plays a vital role in analyzing fundus images for the diagnosis of systemic and ocular diseases. Building on this, classifying segmented vessels into arteries and veins (A/V) further enables the extraction of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Shuang Zeng , Chee Hong Lee , Kaiwen Li , Boxu Xie , Ourui Fu , Hangzhou He , Lei Zhu , Yanye Lu , Fangxiao Cheng

Purpose: Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCT-A) permits visualization of the changes to the retinal circulation due to diabetic retinopathy (DR), a microvascular complication of diabetes. We demonstrate accurate segmentation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-13 Julian Lo , Morgan Heisler , Vinicius Vanzan , Sonja Karst , Ivana Zadro Matovinovic , Sven Loncaric , Eduardo V. Navajas , Mirza Faisal Beg , Marinko V. Sarunic

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a prevalent imaging technique for retina. However, it is affected by multiplicative speckle noise that can degrade the visibility of essential anatomical structures, including blood vessels and tissue…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 Dewei Hu , Joseph D. Malone , Yigit Atay , Yuankai K. Tao , Ipek Oguz

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a novel non-invasive imaging technique that allows visualizations of vasculature and foveal avascular zone (FAZ) across retinal layers. Clinical researches suggest that the morphology and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-14 Li Lin , Zhonghua Wang , Jiewei Wu , Yijin Huang , Junyan Lyu , Pujin Cheng , Jiong Wu , Xiaoying Tang

The precise segmentation of retinal blood vessels is of great significance for early diagnosis of eye-related diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. In this work, we propose a lightweight network named Spatial Attention U-Net (SA-UNet)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-22 Changlu Guo , Márton Szemenyei , Yugen Yi , Wenle Wang , Buer Chen , Changqi Fan

Topological and geometrical analysis of retinal blood vessel is a cost-effective way for early detection of many common diseases. Meanwhile, automated vessel segmentation and vascular tree analysis are still lacking in terms of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-24 Xingzheng Lyu , Li Cheng , Sanyuan Zhang

Retinal imaging serves as a valuable tool for diagnosis of various diseases. However, reading retinal images is a difficult and time-consuming task even for experienced specialists. The fundamental step towards automated retinal image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Liangzhi Li , Manisha Verma , Yuta Nakashima , Ryo Kawasaki , Hajime Nagahara

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a novel imaging modality that has been widely utilized in ophthalmology and neuroscience studies to observe retinal vessels and microvascular systems. However, publicly available OCTA…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-27 Mingchao Li , Kun Huang , Qiuzhuo Xu , Jiadong Yang , Yuhan Zhang , Zexuan Ji , Keren Xie , Songtao Yuan , Qinghuai Liu , Qiang Chen

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

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is essential for diagnosing conditions such as glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and age-related macular degeneration. Accurate retinal layer segmentation enables quantitative biomarkers critical for…

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Segmentation of blood vessels in murine cerebral 3D OCTA images is foundational for in vivo quantitative analysis of the effects of neurovascular disorders, such as stroke or Alzheimer's, on the vascular network. However, to accurately…

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