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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…

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Segmenting of clinically important retinal blood vessels into arteries and veins is a prerequisite for retinal vessel analysis. Such analysis can provide potential insights and bio-markers for identifying and diagnosing various retinal eye…

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Automatic segmentation of retinal blood vessels from fundus images plays an important role in the computer aided diagnosis of retinal diseases. The task of blood vessel segmentation is challenging due to the extreme variations in morphology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Avijit Dasgupta , Sonam Singh

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

The retinal vascular condition is a reliable biomarker of several ophthalmologic and cardiovascular diseases, so automatic vessel segmentation may be crucial to diagnose and monitor them. In this paper, we propose a novel method that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-21 Américo Oliveira , Sérgio Pereira , Carlos A. Silva

Deep learning techniques for 3D brain vessel image segmentation have not been as successful as in the segmentation of other organs and tissues. This can be explained by two factors. First, deep learning techniques tend to show poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Vien Ngoc Dang , Francesco Galati , Rosa Cortese , Giuseppe Di Giacomo , Viola Marconetto , Prateek Mathur , Karim Lekadir , Marco Lorenzi , Ferran Prados , Maria A. Zuluaga

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

Accurate segmentation of blood vessels is essential for various clinical assessments and postoperative analyses. However, the inherent challenges of vascular imaging, such as sparsity, fine granularity, low contrast, data distribution…

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Retinal Vessel Segmentation is important for the diagnosis of various diseases. The research on retinal vessel segmentation focuses mainly on the improvement of the segmentation model which is usually based on U-Net architecture. In our…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 Enes Sadi Uysal , M. Şafak Bilici , B. Selin Zaza , M. Yiğit Özgenç , Onur Boyar

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a novel non-invasive imaging modality for the visualisation of microvasculature in vivo that has encountered broad adoption in retinal research. OCTA potential in the assessment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Ylenia Giarratano , Eleonora Bianchi , Calum Gray , Andrew Morris , Tom MacGillivray , Baljean Dhillon , Miguel O. Bernabeu

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

The appearance and structure of blood vessels in retinal images have an important role in diagnosis of diseases. This paper proposes a method for automatic retinal vessel segmentation. In this work, a novel preprocessing based on local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Saeid Fazli , Sevin Samadi

Accurate segmentation of retinal images plays a crucial role in aiding ophthalmologists in diagnosing retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and assessing its severity. However, due to their underdeveloped, thinner vessels, manual annotation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Gozde Merve Demirci , Jiachen Yao , Ming-Chih Ho , Xiaoling Hu , Wei-Chi Wu , Chao Chen , Chia-Ling Tsai

We introduce a novel framework for learning vector representations of tree-structured geometric data focusing on 3D vascular networks. Our approach employs two sequentially trained Transformer-based autoencoders. In the first stage, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 James Batten , Michiel Schaap , Matthew Sinclair , Ying Bai , Ben Glocker

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a novel noninvasive imaging modality for visualization of retinal blood flow in the human retina. Using specific OCTA imaging biomarkers for the identification of pathologies, automated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 Anna Breger , Felix Goldbach , Bianca S. Gerendas , Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth , Martin Ehler

Automatic segmentation of retina vessels plays a pivotal role in clinical diagnosis of prevalent eye diseases, such as, Diabetic Retinopathy or Age-related Macular Degeneration. Due to the complex construction of blood vessels, with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Benjamin Hou

In the last 15 years, the segmentation of vessels in retinal images has become an intensively researched problem in medical imaging, with hundreds of algorithms published. One of the de facto benchmarking data sets of vessel segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 György Kovács , Attila Fazekas

Retinal vessel segmentation is generally grounded in image-based datasets collected with bench-top devices. The static images naturally lose the dynamic characteristics of retina fluctuation, resulting in diminished dataset richness, and…

Accurate segmentation of blood vessels in brain magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is essential for successful surgical procedures, such as aneurysm repair or bypass surgery. Currently, annotation is primarily performed through manual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Alexandra Bernadotte , Elfimov Nikita , Mikhail Shutov , Ivan Menshikov

The accurate segmentation of retinal blood vessels plays a crucial role in the early diagnosis and treatment of various ophthalmic diseases. Designing a network model for this task requires meticulous tuning and extensive experimentation to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Tingting Wu , Ruyi Min , Peixuan Song , Hengtao Guo , Tieyong Zeng , Feng-Lei Fan