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Precision in identifying and differentiating micro and macro blood vessels in the retina is crucial for the diagnosis of retinal diseases, although it poses a significant challenge. Current autoencoding-based segmentation approaches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Rui Yang , Shunpu Zhang

Segmentation of retinal vessel images is critical to the diagnosis of retinopathy. Recently, convolutional neural networks have shown significant ability to extract the blood vessel structure. However, it remains challenging to refined…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Geng-Xin Xu , Chuan-Xian Ren

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

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

Retinal imaging has emerged as a promising method of addressing this challenge, taking advantage of the unique structure of the retina. The retina is an embryonic extension of the central nervous system, providing a direct in vivo window…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Syed Javed , Tariq M. Khan , Abdul Qayyum , Arcot Sowmya , Imran Razzak

The reliable segmentation of retinal vasculature can provide the means to diagnose and monitor the progression of a variety of diseases affecting the blood vessel network, including diabetes and hypertension. We leverage the power of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-23 Ali Hatamizadeh , Hamid Hosseini , Zhengyuan Liu , Steven D. Schwartz , Demetri Terzopoulos

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

From diagnosing neovascular diseases to detecting white matter lesions, accurate tiny vessel segmentation in fundus images is critical. Promising results for accurate vessel segmentation have been known. However, their effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Suraj Mishra , Danny Z. Chen , X. Sharon Hu

Accurate segmentation of retinal vessels is a basic step in Diabetic retinopathy(DR) detection. Most methods based on deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) have small receptive fields, and hence they are unable to capture global context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Yun Jiang , Ning Tan , Tingting Peng , Hai Zhang

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 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

Retinal vessel segmentation plays a vital role in analyzing fundus images for the diagnosis of systemic and ocular diseases. Building on this, classifying segmented vessels into arteries and veins (A/V) further enables the extraction of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Shuang Zeng , Chee Hong Lee , Kaiwen Li , Boxu Xie , Ourui Fu , Hangzhou He , Lei Zhu , Yanye Lu , Fangxiao Cheng

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sharan SK , Subin Sahayam , Umarani Jayaraman , Lakshmi Priya A

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

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

Extracting blood vessels from retinal fundus images plays a decisive role in diagnosing the progression in pertinent diseases. In medical image analysis, vessel extraction is a semantic binary segmentation problem, where blood vasculature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-21 Kundan Kumar , Sumanshu Agarwal

Over recent years, increasingly complex approaches based on sophisticated convolutional neural network architectures have been slowly pushing performance on well-established benchmark datasets. In this paper, we take a step back to examine…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Tariq M Khan , Antonio Robles-Kelly , Syed S. Naqvi

The study of the retinal vasculature is a fundamental stage in the screening and diagnosis of many diseases. A complete retinal vascular analysis requires to segment and classify the blood vessels of the retina into arteries and veins…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-21 José Morano , Álvaro S. Hervella , Jorge Novo , José Rouco

The analysis of retinal images for the diagnosis of various diseases is one of the emerging areas of research. Recently, the research direction has been inclined towards investigating several changes in retinal blood vessels in subjects…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Mehwish Mehmood , Shahzaib Iqbal , Tariq Mahmood Khan , Ivor Spence , Muhammad Fahim

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