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In this paper, we propose an efficient blood vessel segmentation method for the eye fundus images using adversarial learning with multiscale features and kernel factorization. In the generator network of the adversarial framework, spatial…

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Accurate coronary artery segmentation is critical for computeraided diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD), yet it remains challenging due to the small size, complex morphology, and low contrast with surrounding tissues. To address…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Caixia Dong , Duwei Dai , Xinyi Han , Fan Liu , Xu Yang , Zongfang Li , Songhua Xu

The accurate segmentation of retinal vessels in fundus images is a great challenge in medical image segmentation tasks due to their highly complex structure from other organs.Currently, deep-learning based methods for retinal cessel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yiwang Dong , Xiangyu Deng

Affinity graph-based segmentation methods have become a major trend in computer vision. The performance of these methods relies on the constructed affinity graph, with particular emphasis on the neighborhood topology and pairwise affinities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Yang Zhang , Moyun Liu , Huiming Zhang , Guodong Sun , Jingwu He

In ophthalmology, the study of the retinal microcirculation is a key issue in the analysis of many ocular and systemic diseases, like hypertension or diabetes. This motivates the research on improving the retinal vasculature segmentation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-23 José Morano , Álvaro S. Hervella , Noelia Barreira , Jorge Novo , José Rouco

Multi-atlas segmentation approach is one of the most widely-used image segmentation techniques in biomedical applications. There are two major challenges in this category of methods, i.e., atlas selection and label fusion. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Heran Yang , Jian Sun , Huibin Li , Lisheng Wang , Zongben Xu

Precise segmentation of retinal arteries and veins carries the diagnosis of systemic cardiovascular conditions. However, standard convolutional architectures often yield topologically disjointed segmentations, characterized by gaps and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Iftekhar Ahmed , Shakib Absar , Aftar Ahmad Sami , Shadman Sakib , Debojyoti Biswas , Seraj Al Mahmud Mostafa

As recent advances in AI are causing the decline of conventional diagnostic methods, the realization of end-to-end diagnosis is fast approaching. Ultrasound image segmentation is an important step in the diagnostic process. An accurate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Yuhan Song , Armagan Elibol , Nak Young Chong

We propose a novel deep-learning-based system for vessel segmentation. Existing methods using CNNs have mostly relied on local appearances learned on the regular image grid, without considering the graphical structure of vessel shape. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Seung Yeon Shin , Soochahn Lee , Il Dong Yun , Kyoung Mu Lee

Segmentation of retinal vessels from retinal fundus images is the key step in the automatic retinal image analysis. In this paper, we propose a new unsupervised automatic method to segment the retinal vessels from retinal fundus images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Renoh Johnson Chalakkal , Waleed Abdulla

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

Vessel segmentation of retinal images is a key diagnostic capability in ophthalmology. This problem faces several challenges including low contrast, variable vessel size and thickness, and presence of interfering pathology such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Venkateswararao Cherukuri , Vijay Kumar BG , Raja Bala , Vishal Monga

Accurately segmenting brain lesions in MRI scans is critical for providing patients with prognoses and neurological monitoring. However, the performance of CNN-based segmentation methods is constrained by the limited training set size.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Jiayu Huo , Yang Liu , Xi Ouyang , Alejandro Granados , Sebastien Ourselin , Rachel Sparks

The morphological attributes of retinal vessels, such as length, width, tortuosity and branching pattern and angles, play an important role in diagnosis, screening, treatment, and evaluation of various cardiovascular and ophthalmologic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-25 Zhengyuan Liu

Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is a critical prerequisite for quantitative analysis of retinal images and computer-aided diagnosis of vascular diseases such as diabetic retinopathy. However, the elongated morphology, wide scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Ruiqi Song , Lei Liu , Ya-Nan Zhang , Chao Wang , Xiaoning Li , Nan Mu

Semantic segmentation has made much progress with increasingly powerful pixel-wise classifiers and incorporating structural priors via Conditional Random Fields (CRF) or Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). We propose a simpler…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Tsung-Wei Ke , Jyh-Jing Hwang , Ziwei Liu , Stella X. Yu

In this study, a supervised retina blood vessel segmentation process was performed on the green channel of the RGB image using artificial neural network (ANN). The green channel is preferred because the retinal vessel structures can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-17 Esra Kaya , İsmail Sarıtaş , Ilker Ali Ozkan

Given a source portrait, the automatic human body reshaping task aims at editing it to an aesthetic body shape. As the technology has been widely used in media, several methods have been proposed mainly focusing on generating optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Qiwen Deng , Yangcen Liu , Wen Li , Guoqing Wang

Automatic medical image segmentation, an essential component of medical image analysis, plays an importantrole in computer-aided diagnosis. For example, locating and segmenting the liver can be very helpful in livercancer diagnosis and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-28 Xi Fang , Bo Du , Sheng Xu , Bradford J. Wood , Pingkun Yan

Retinal vascular segmentation, a widely researched topic in biomedical image processing, aims to reduce the workload of ophthalmologists in treating and detecting retinal disorders. Segmenting retinal vessels presents unique challenges;…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Melaku N. Getahun , Oleg Y. Rogov , Dmitry V. Dylov , Andrey Somov , Ahmed Bouridane , Rifat Hamoudi