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Abnormalities in retinal fundus images may indicate certain pathologies such as diabetic retinopathy, hypertension, stroke, glaucoma, retinal macular edema, venous occlusion, and atherosclerosis, making the study and analysis of retinal…

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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

Accurate detection of retinal vessels plays a critical role in reflecting a wide range of health status indicators in the clinical diagnosis of ocular diseases. Recently, advances in deep learning have led to a surge in retinal vessel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiawen Liu , Yuanbo Zeng , Jiaming Liang , Yizhen Yang , Yiheng Zhang , Enhui Cai , Xiaoqi Sheng , Hongmin Cai

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

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 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.…

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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

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

The segmentation of the retinal vasculature from eye fundus images represents one of the most fundamental tasks in retinal image analysis. Over recent years, increasingly complex approaches based on sophisticated Convolutional Neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-07 Adrian Galdran , André Anjos , José Dolz , Hadi Chakor , Hervé Lombaert , Ismail Ben Ayed

The identification of vascular networks is an important topic in the medical image analysis community. While most methods focus on single vessel tracking, the few solutions that exist for tracking complete vascular networks are usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Dario Augusto Borges Oliveira , Laura Leal-Taixe , Raul Queiroz Feitosa , Bodo Rosenhahn

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

Human veins are important for carrying the blood from the body-parts to the heart. The improper functioning of the human veins may arise from several venous diseases. Varicose vein is one such disease wherein back flow of blood can occur,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Maryam Viqar , Violeta Madjarova , Vipul Baghel , Elena Stoykova

As a non-invasive imaging modality, optical coherence tomography (OCT) can provide micrometer-resolution 3D images of retinal structures. Therefore it is commonly used in the diagnosis of retinal diseases associated with edema in and under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Donghuan Lu , Morgan Heisler , Sieun Lee , Gavin Ding , Marinko V. Sarunic , Mirza Faisal Beg

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

Tree-like structures, such as blood vessels, often express complexity at very fine scales, requiring high-resolution grids to adequately describe their shape. Such sparse morphology can alternately be represented by locations of centreline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Kerry Halupka , Rahil Garnavi , Stephen Moore

Retinal fundus images provide valuable insights into the human eye's interior structure and crucial features, such as blood vessels, optic disk, macula, and fovea. However, accurate segmentation of retinal blood vessels can be challenging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Atifa Kalsoom , M. A. Iftikhar , Amjad Ali , Zubair Shah , Shidin Balakrishnan , Hazrat Ali

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

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

The change of retinal vasculature is an early sign of many vascular and systematic diseases, such as diabetes and hypertension. Different behaviors of retinal arterioles and venules form an important metric to measure the disease severity.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Meng Li , Yan Zhang , Haicheng She , Jinqiong Zhou , Jia Jia , Danmei He , Li 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