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Retinal blood vessel segmentation is crucial for diagnosing ocular and cardiovascular diseases. Although the introduction of U-Net in 2015 by Olaf Ronneberger significantly advanced this field, yet issues like limited training data,…

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Learning structural information is critical for producing an ideal result in retinal image segmentation. Recently, convolutional neural networks have shown a powerful ability to extract effective representations. However, convolutional and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-24 Shihao Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Yuguang Yan , Yubing Zhang , Qingyao Wu , Ming Yang , Mingkui Tan , Yanwu Xu

Retinal vessel segmentation is essential for early diagnosis of diseases such as diabetic retinopathy, hypertension, and neurodegenerative disorders. Although SA-UNet introduces spatial attention in the bottleneck, it underuses attention in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Changlu Guo , Anders Nymark Christensen , Anders Bjorholm Dahl , Yugen Yi , Morten Rieger Hannemose

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

U-Net has been providing state-of-the-art performance in many medical image segmentation problems. Many modifications have been proposed for U-Net, such as attention U-Net, recurrent residual convolutional U-Net (R2-UNet), and U-Net with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Juntang Zhuang

The ability to extrapolate gene expression dynamics in living single cells requires robust cell segmentation, and one of the challenges is the amorphous or irregularly shaped cell boundaries. To address this issue, we modified the U-Net…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-01-17 Nanyan Zhu , Chen Liu , Zakary S. Singer , Tal Danino , Andrew F. Laine , Jia Guo

Automatic segmentation of retinal vessels in fundus images plays an important role in the diagnosis of some diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. In this paper, we propose Deformable U-Net (DUNet), which exploits the retinal vessels'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Qiangguo Jin , Zhaopeng Meng , Tuan D. Pham , Qi Chen , Leyi Wei , Ran Su

Attention mechanism has been regarded as an advanced technique to capture long-range feature interactions and to boost the representation capability for convolutional neural networks. However, we found two ignored problems in current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Zhu Baozhou , Peter Hofstee , Jinho Lee , Zaid Al-Ars

Our research focuses on the critical field of early diagnosis of disease by examining retinal blood vessels in fundus images. While automatic segmentation of retinal blood vessels holds promise for early detection, accurate analysis remains…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Fatema Tuj Johora Faria , Mukaffi Bin Moin , Pronay Debnath , Asif Iftekher Fahim , Faisal Muhammad Shah

Learning to capture long-range relations is fundamental to image/video recognition. Existing CNN models generally rely on increasing depth to model such relations which is highly inefficient. In this work, we propose the "double attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Yunpeng Chen , Yannis Kalantidis , Jianshu Li , Shuicheng Yan , Jiashi Feng

Organ at risk (OAR) segmentation in computed tomography (CT) imagery is a difficult task for automated segmentation methods and can be crucial for downstream radiation treatment planning. U-net has become a de-facto standard for medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Abdullah Nazib , Riad Hassan , Zahidul Islam , Clinton Fookes

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

Extracting blood vessels from retinal fundus images plays a decisive role in diagnosing the progression in pertinent diseases. In medical image analysis, vessel extraction is a semantic binary segmentation problem, where blood vasculature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-21 Kundan Kumar , Sumanshu Agarwal

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

Retinal vessel segmentation is critical for the early diagnosis of vision-threatening and systemic diseases, especially in real-world clinical settings with limited computational resources. Although significant improvements have been made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Mehwish Mehmood , Shahzaib Iqbal , Tariq Mahmood Khan , Ivor Spence , Muhammad Fahim

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

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

Structures suffer from the emergence of cracks, therefore, crack detection is always an issue with much concern in structural health monitoring. Along with the rapid progress of deep learning technology, image semantic segmentation, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Fangzheng Lin , Jiesheng Yang , Jiangpeng Shu , Raimar J. Scherer

Despite the growing success of Convolution neural networks (CNN) in the recent past in the task of scene segmentation, the standard models lack some of the important features that might result in sub-optimal segmentation outputs. The widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Soham Chattopadhyay , Hritam Basak

Retinal vessel segmentation is a vital early detection method for several severe ocular diseases. Despite significant progress in retinal vessel segmentation with the advancement of Neural Networks, there are still challenges to overcome.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Shuang Zeng , Chee Hong Lee , Micky C Nnamdi , Wenqi Shi , J Ben Tamo , Lei Zhu , Hangzhou He , Xinliang Zhang , Qian Chen , May D. Wang , Yanye Lu , Qiushi Ren