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Segmentation plays a crucial role in diagnosis. Studying the retinal vasculatures from fundus images help identify early signs of many crucial illnesses such as diabetic retinopathy. Due to the varying shape, size, and patterns of retinal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Shreshth Saini , Geetika Agrawal

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 plays a pivotal role in disease diagnosis and treatment planning, particularly in resource-constrained clinical settings where lightweight and generalizable models are urgently needed. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Chengqi Dong , Fenghe Tang , Rongge Mao , Xinpei Gao , S. Kevin Zhou

Retinal blood vessel segmentation can extract clinically relevant information from fundus images. As manual tracing is cumbersome, algorithms based on Convolution Neural Networks have been developed. Such studies have used small publicly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-24 Jeremiah Fadugba , Patrick Köhler , Lisa Koch , Petru Manescu , Philipp Berens

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

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

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

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

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

Accurate segmentation of the blood vessels of the retina is an important step in clinical diagnosis of ophthalmic diseases. Many deep learning frameworks have come up for retinal blood vessels segmentation tasks. However, the complex…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-08 Ting Zhang , Jun Li , Yi Zhao , Nan Chen , Han Zhou , Hongtao Xu , Zihao Guan , Changcai Yang , Lanyan Xue , Riqing Chen , Lifang Wei

Recently, many methods based on hand-designed convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved promising results in automatic retinal vessel segmentation. However, these CNNs remain constrained in capturing retinal vessels in complex…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-14 Jiahong Wei , Zhun Fan

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

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

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

The automatic segmentation of blood vessels in fundus images can help analyze the condition of retinal vasculature, which is crucial for identifying various systemic diseases like hypertension, diabetes, etc. Despite the success of Deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Ashish Kumar , R. K. Agrawal , Leve Joseph

The morphology of retinal blood vessels can indicate various diseases in the human body, and researchers have been working on automatic scanning and segmentation of retinal images to aid diagnosis. This project compares the performance of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-20 Ifeyinwa Linda Anene , Yongmin Li

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

Lightweight retinal vessel segmentation is important for the early diagnosis of vision-threatening and systemic diseases, especially in a real-world clinical environment with limited computational resources. Although segmentation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Mehwish Mehmood , Ivor Spence , Muhammad Fahim

Automatic segmentation of retinal blood vessels from fundus images plays an important role in the computer aided diagnosis of retinal diseases. The task of blood vessel segmentation is challenging due to the extreme variations in morphology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Avijit Dasgupta , Sonam Singh

Vessel segmentation in fundus is a key diagnostic capability in ophthalmology, and there are various challenges remained in this essential task. Early approaches indicate that it is often difficult to obtain desirable segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Shaoming Zheng , Tianyang Zhang , Jiawei Zhuang , Hao Wang , Jiang Liu