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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

Medical image segmentation is of great significance in analysis of illness. The use of deep neural networks in medical image segmentation can help doctors extract regions of interest from complex medical images, thereby improving diagnostic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Zhuoyi Fang , Kexuan Shi , Jiajia Liu , Qiang Han

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

Human veins are important for carrying the blood from the body-parts to the heart. The improper functioning of the human veins may arise from several venous diseases. Varicose vein is one such disease wherein back flow of blood can occur,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Maryam Viqar , Violeta Madjarova , Vipul Baghel , Elena Stoykova

Biomedical image segmentation is critical for precise structure delineation and downstream analysis. Traditional methods often struggle with noisy data, while deep learning models such as U-Net have set new benchmarks in segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Shuo Zhao , Yu Zhou , Jianxu Chen

Recently, some pioneering works have preferred applying more complex modules to improve segmentation performances. However, it is not friendly for actual clinical environments due to limited computing resources. To address this challenge,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Jiacheng Ruan , Suncheng Xiang , Mingye Xie , Ting Liu , Yuzhuo Fu

Blood cell classification and counting are vital for the diagnosis of various blood-related diseases, such as anemia, leukemia, and thrombocytopenia. The manual process of blood cell classification and counting is time-consuming, prone to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-27 Sohag Kumar Mondal , Md. Simul Hasan Talukder , Mohammad Aljaidi , Rejwan Bin Sulaiman , Md Mohiuddin Sarker Tushar , Amjad A Alsuwaylimi

Purpose: Manual medical image segmentation is an exhausting and time-consuming task along with high inter-observer variability. In this study, our objective is to improve the multi-resolution image segmentation performance of U-Net…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Simindokht Jahangard , Mohammad Hossein Zangooei , Maysam Shahedi

Automated blood vessel segmentation is vital for biomedical imaging, as vessel changes indicate many pathologies. Still, precise segmentation is difficult due to the complexity of vascular structures, anatomical variations across patients,…

Accurate and reliable image segmentation is an essential part of biomedical image analysis. In this paper, we consider the problem of biomedical image segmentation using deep convolutional neural networks. We propose a new end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Amirhossein Dadashzadeh , Alireza Tavakoli Targhi

Liver cancer is one of the most common malignant diseases in the world. Segmentation and labeling of liver tumors and blood vessels in CT images can provide convenience for doctors in liver tumor diagnosis and surgical intervention. In the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Xiangyu Meng , Xudong Zhang , Gan Wang , Ying Zhang , Xin Shi , Huanhuan Dai , Zixuan Wang , Xun Wang

Segmenting blood vessels in fundus imaging plays an important role in medical diagnosis. Many algorithms have been proposed. While deep Neural Networks have been attracting enormous attention from computer vision community recent years and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Yongliang Chen

Accurately segmenting blood vessels in retinal fundus images is crucial in the early screening, diagnosing, and evaluating some ocular diseases, yet it poses a nontrivial uncertainty for the segmentation task due to various factors such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-29 Yuanyuan Peng , Pengpeng Luan , Zixu Zhang

Vascular structures in the retina contain important information for the detection and analysis of ocular diseases, including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. Commonly used modalities in diagnosis of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Erick O. Rodrigues , Aura Conci , Panos Liatsis

Retinal diseases can cause irreversible vision loss in both eyes if not diagnosed and treated early. Since retinal diseases are so complicated, retinal imaging is likely to show two or more abnormalities. Current deep learning techniques…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Tariq M Khan , Shahzaib Iqbal , Syed S. Naqvi , Imran Razzak , Erik Meijering

Retinal vessel information is helpful in retinal disease screening and diagnosis. Retinal vessel segmentation provides useful information about vessels and can be used by physicians during intraocular surgery and retinal diagnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-23 M. Hajabdollahi , R. Esfandiarpoor , S. M. R. Soroushmehr , N. Karimi , S. Samavi , K. Najarian

Semantic segmentation of blood vessels is an important task in medical image analysis, but its progress is often hindered by the scarcity of large annotated datasets and the poor generalization of models across different imaging modalities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Cesar H. Comin , Wesley N. Galvão

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

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

Medical image segmentation requires large annotated datasets, creating a significant bottleneck for clinical applications. While few-shot segmentation methods can learn from minimal examples, existing approaches demonstrate suboptimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Ziyuan Gao