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Purpose: Automatic and accurate segmentation of fundus vessel images has become an essential prerequisite for computer-aided diagnosis of ophthalmic diseases such as diabetes mellitus. The task of high-precision retinal vessel segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 Xiang Li , Mingsi Liu , Lixin Duan

The retinal vasculature provides important clues in the diagnosis and monitoring of systemic diseases including hypertension and diabetes. The microvascular system is of primary involvement in such conditions, and the retina is the only…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Ali Hatamizadeh , Hamid Hosseini , Niraj Patel , Jinseo Choi , Cameron C. Pole , Cory M. Hoeferlin , Steven D. Schwartz , Demetri Terzopoulos

Analyzing the morphological attributes of blood vessels plays a critical role in the computer-aided diagnosis of many cardiovascular and ophthalmologic diseases. Although being extensively studied, segmentation of blood vessels,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-12 Yicheng Wu , Chengwei Pan , Shuqi Wang , Ming Zhang , Yong Xia , Yizhou Yu

Analysis of retinal fundus images is essential for eye-care physicians in the diagnosis, care and treatment of patients. Accurate fundus and/or retinal vessel maps give rise to longitudinal studies able to utilize multimedia image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Henry A Leopold , Jeff Orchard , John S Zelek , Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

Instance segmentation is critical in biomedical imaging to accurately distinguish individual objects like cells, which often overlap and vary in size. Recent query-based methods, where object queries guide segmentation, have shown strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yaroslav Prytula , Illia Tsiporenko , Ali Zeynalli , Dmytro Fishman

Existing supervised approaches didn't make use of the low-level features which are actually effective to this task. And another deficiency is that they didn't consider the relation between pixels, which means effective features are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Boheng Zhang , Shenglei Huang , Shaohan Hu

Automatic analysis of retinal blood images is of vital importance in diagnosis tasks of retinopathy. Segmenting vessels accurately is a fundamental step in analysing retinal images. However, it is usually difficult due to various imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Yishuo Zhang , Albert C. S. Chung

Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is a challenging problem in color fundus image analysis. An automatic retinal vessel segmentation system can effectively facilitate clinical diagnosis and ophthalmological research. Technically, this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-26 Muyi Sun , Guanhong Zhang

Medical image segmentation is a difficult but important task for many clinical operations such as cardiac bi-ventricular volume estimation. More recently, there has been a shift to utilizing deep learning and fully convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Jesse Sun , Fatemeh Darbehani , Mark Zaidi , Bo Wang

Medical image segmentation is vital to the area of medical imaging because it enables professionals to more accurately examine and understand the information offered by different imaging modalities. The technique of splitting a medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-01 Aitik Gupta , Joydip Dhar

Edge detection is crucial in medical image processing, enabling precise extraction of structural information to support lesion identification and image analysis. Traditional edge detection models typically rely on complex Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Fuzhang Li , Chuan Lin

Blinding eye diseases are often correlated with altered retinal morphology, which can be clinically identified by segmenting retinal structures in fundus images. However, current methodologies often fall short in accurately segmenting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Mufassir M. Abbasi , Shahzaib Iqbal , Asim Naveed , Tariq M. Khan , Syed S. Naqvi , Wajeeha Khalid

Medical image segmentation is an important step in medical image analysis, especially as a crucial prerequisite for efficient disease diagnosis and treatment. The use of deep learning for image segmentation has become a prevalent trend. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Wenjian Yao , Jiajun Bai , Wei Liao , Yuheng Chen , Mengjuan Liu , Yao Xie

Current state-of-the-art medical image segmentation methods prioritize accuracy but often at the expense of increased computational demands and larger model sizes. Applying these large-scale models to the relatively limited scale of medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jiahui Zhong , Wenhong Tian , Yuanlun Xie , Zhijia Liu , Jie Ou , Taoran Tian , Lei Zhang

Many recent medical segmentation systems rely on powerful deep learning models to solve highly specific tasks. To maximize performance, it is standard practice to evaluate numerous pipelines with varying model topologies, optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Mathias Perslev , Erik Bjørnager Dam , Akshay Pai , Christian Igel

Automated segmentation of retinal blood vessels in label-free fundus images entails a pivotal role in computed aided diagnosis of ophthalmic pathologies, viz., diabetic retinopathy, hypertensive disorders and cardiovascular diseases. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Avisek Lahiri , Abhijit Guha Roy , Debdoot Sheet , Prabir Kumar Biswas

In view of the recent paradigm shift in deep AI based image processing methods, medical image processing has advanced considerably. In this study, we propose a novel deep neural network (DNN), entitled InceptNet, in the scope of medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Amirhossein Sajedi , Mohammad Javad Fadaeieslam

Retinal vessel segmentation plays an imaportant role in the field of retinal image analysis because changes in retinal vascular structure can aid in the diagnosis of diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. In recent research, numerous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Changlu Guo , Márton Szemenyei , Yugen Yi , Ying Xue , Wei Zhou , Yangyuan Li

Precisely estimating lumen boundaries in intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is needed for sizing interventional stents to treat deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Unfortunately, current segmentation networks like the UNet lack the precision needed…

Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is an important task for many computer-aided diagnosis systems. Yet, it is still a challenging problem due to the complex vessel structures of an eye. Numerous vessel segmentation methods have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Ali Karaali , Rozenn Dahyot , Donal J. Sexton