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In recent years, several automatic segmentation methods have been proposed for blood vessels in retinal fundus images, ranging from using cheap and fast trainable filters to complicated neural networks and even deep learning. One example of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-30 Michiel Straat , Jorrit Oosterhof

The task of automatically segmenting 3-D surfaces representing boundaries of objects is important for quantitative analysis of volumetric images, and plays a vital role in biomedical image analysis. Recently, graph-based methods with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Abhay Shah , Michael Abramoff , Xiaodong Wu

We propose an encoder-decoder framework for the segmentation of blood vessels in retinal images that relies on the extraction of large-scale patches at multiple image-scales during training. Experiments on three fundus image datasets…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 Björn Browatzki , Jörn-Philipp Lies , Christian Wallraven

The retinal vasculature provides important clues in the diagnosis and monitoring of systemic diseases including hypertension and diabetes. The microvascular system is of primary involvement in such conditions, and the retina is the only…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Ali Hatamizadeh , Hamid Hosseini , Niraj Patel , Jinseo Choi , Cameron C. Pole , Cory M. Hoeferlin , Steven D. Schwartz , Demetri Terzopoulos

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

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

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

Accurate segmentation of retinal images plays a crucial role in aiding ophthalmologists in diagnosing retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and assessing its severity. However, due to their underdeveloped, thinner vessels, manual annotation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Gozde Merve Demirci , Jiachen Yao , Ming-Chih Ho , Xiaoling Hu , Wei-Chi Wu , Chao Chen , Chia-Ling Tsai

High fidelity segmentation of both macro and microvascular structure of the retina plays a pivotal role in determining degenerative retinal diseases, yet it is a difficult problem. Due to successive resolution loss in the encoding phase…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Sharif Amit Kamran , Khondker Fariha Hossain , Alireza Tavakkoli , Stewart Lee Zuckerbrod , Kenton M. Sanders , Salah A. Baker

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

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

Segmentation of medical images is a fundamental task with numerous applications. While MRI, CT, and PET modalities have significantly benefited from deep learning segmentation techniques, more recent modalities, like functional ultrasound…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Hana Sebia , Thomas Guyet , Mickaël Pereira , Marco Valdebenito , Hugues Berry , Benjamin Vidal

IntraVascular UltraSound (IVUS) is one of the most effective imaging modalities that provides assistance to experts in order to diagnose and treat cardiovascular diseases. We address a central problem in IVUS image analysis with Fully…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-15 Ji Yang , Lin Tong , Mehdi Faraji , Anup Basu

Automated segmentation plays a pivotal role in medical image analysis and computer-assisted interventions. Despite the promising performance of existing methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), they neglect useful equivariant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Jiazhen Zhang , Yuexi Du , Nicha C. Dvornek , John A. Onofrey

Most deep learning pipelines for retinal vessel segmentation resize fundus images to satisfy GPU memory constraints and enable uniform batch processing. However, the impact of this resizing on thin vessel detection remains underexplored.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Amarnath R

Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is an important task for many computer-aided diagnosis systems. Yet, it is still a challenging problem due to the complex vessel structures of an eye. Numerous vessel segmentation methods have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Ali Karaali , Rozenn Dahyot , Donal J. Sexton

Intracoronary Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) enables high-resolution visualization of coronary vessel anatomy but presents challenges due to noise, imaging artifacts, and complex tissue structures. This paper proposes a fully automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Amal Lahchim , Lambros Athanasiou

In order to estimate a registration model of eye fundus images made of an affinity and two radial distortions, we introduce an estimation criterion based on an error between the vessels. In [1], we estimated this model by minimising the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-07-22 Guillaume Noyel , R Thomas , S Iles , G Bhakta , A Crowder , D. Owens , P. Boyle

Many studies regarding the vasculature of biological tissues involve the segmentation of the blood vessels in a sample followed by the creation of a graph structure to model the vasculature. The graph is then used to extract relevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 João Pedro Parella , Matheus Viana da Silva , Cesar Henrique Comin

Among the research efforts to segment the retinal vasculature from fundus images, deep learning models consistently achieve superior performance. However, this data-driven approach is very sensitive to domain shifts. For fundus images, such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Dewei Hu , Xing Yao , Jiacheng Wang , Yuankai K. Tao , Ipek Oguz