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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

Vascular segmentation extracts blood vessels from images and serves as the basis for diagnosing various diseases, like ophthalmic diseases. Ophthalmologists often require high-resolution segmentation results for analysis, which leads to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Yan Hu , Zhongxi Qiu , Dan Zeng , Li Jiang , Chen Lin , Jiang Liu

The accurate retinal vessel segmentation (RVS) is of great significance to assist doctors in the diagnosis of ophthalmology diseases and other systemic diseases. Manually designing a valid neural network architecture for retinal vessel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-19 Zhun Fan , Jiahong Wei , Guijie Zhu , Jiajie Mo , Wenji Li

Deep learning based models, generally, require a large number of samples for appropriate training, a requirement that is difficult to satisfy in the medical field. This issue can usually be avoided with a proper initialization of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Taibou Birgui Sekou , Moncef Hidane , Julien Olivier , Hubert Cardot

Timely and affordable computer-aided diagnosis of retinal diseases is pivotal in precluding blindness. Accurate retinal vessel segmentation plays an important role in disease progression and diagnosis of such vision-threatening diseases. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Tariq M. Khan , Syed S. Naqvi , Antonio Robles-Kelly , Imran Razzak

Retinal image plays a crucial role in diagnosing various diseases, as retinal structures provide essential diagnostic information. However, effectively capturing structural features while integrating them with contextual information from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Xinwei Luo , Songlin Zhao , Yun Zong , Yong Chen , Gui-shuang Ying , Lifang He

Diagnosing different retinal diseases from Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT) images is a challenging task. Different automated approaches such as image processing, machine learning and deep learning algorithms have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Sharif Amit Kamran , Sourajit Saha , Ali Shihab Sabbir , Alireza Tavakkoli

Retinal vessel segmentation is a crucial step in diagnosing and screening various diseases, including diabetes, ophthalmologic diseases, and cardiovascular diseases. In this paper, we propose an effective and efficient method for vessel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-24 Zhun Fan , Jiajie Mo , Benzhang Qiu , Wenji Li , Guijie Zhu , Chong Li , Jianye Hu , Yibiao Rong , Xinjian Chen

Digital pathology has recently been revolutionized by advancements in artificial intelligence, deep learning, and high-performance computing. With its advanced tools, digital pathology can help improve and speed up the diagnostic process,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-28 Mohamed Elmanna , Ahmed Elsafty , Yomna Ahmed , Muhammad Rushdi , Ahmed Morsy

This research paper addresses the critical challenge of diabetic retinopathy (DR), a severe complication of diabetes leading to potential blindness. The proposed methodology leverages transfer learning with convolutional neural networks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Manoj S H , Arya A Bosale

The automatic segmentation of retinal layer structures enables clinically-relevant quantification and monitoring of eye disorders over time in OCT imaging. Eyes with late-stage diseases are particularly challenging to segment, as their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Stefanos Apostolopoulos , Sandro De Zanet , Carlos Ciller , Sebastian Wolf , Raphael Sznitman

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 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

Many deep learning based methods have been proposed for retinal vessel segmentation, however few of them focus on the connectivity of segmented vessels, which is quite important for a practical computer-aided diagnosis system on retinal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Rui Xu , Tiantian Liu , Xinchen Ye , Yen-Wei Chen

Diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration pose a significant risk to vision, highlighting the importance of precise segmentation of retinal vessels for the tracking and diagnosis of progression. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Tariq M. Khan , Muhammad Arsalan , Shahzaib Iqbal , Imran Razzak , Erik Meijering

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

Retinal blood vessels are considered to be the reliable diagnostic biomarkers of ophthalmologic and diabetic retinopathy. Monitoring and diagnosis totally depends on expert analysis of both thin and thick retinal vessels which has recently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-24 Waseem Abbas , Muhammad Haroon Shakeel , Numan Khurshid , Murtaza Taj

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are widely used to carry out segmentation tasks in biomedical images. Most DNNs developed for this purpose are based on some variation of the encoder-decoder U-Net architecture. Here we show that Res-CR-Net, a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-18 Haikal Abdulah , Benjamin Huber , Sinan Lal , Hassan Abdallah , Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh , Domenico L. Gatti

The segmentation of retinal vessels is of significance for doctors to diagnose the fundus diseases. However, existing methods have various problems in the segmentation of the retinal vessels, such as insufficient segmentation of retinal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Yun Jiang , Ning Tan

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