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Retinal vessel segmentation plays an imaportant role in the field of retinal image analysis because changes in retinal vascular structure can aid in the diagnosis of diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. In recent research, numerous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Changlu Guo , Márton Szemenyei , Yugen Yi , Ying Xue , Wei Zhou , Yangyuan Li

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

Retinal vessel segmentation is crucial for intelligent ophthalmic diagnosis, yet it faces three major challenges: insufficient multi-scale feature fusion, disruption of contextual continuity, and noise interference. This study proposes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xinran Xu , Yuliang Ma , Sifu Cai , Ming Meng , Qiang Lv , Ruoyan Shi

In this paper, we present a novel neural network architecture for retinal vessel segmentation that improves over the state of the art on two benchmark datasets, is the first to run in real time on high resolution images, and its small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Tim Laibacher , Tillman Weyde , Sepehr Jalali

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

Retinal vessel segmentation is of great interest for diagnosis of retinal vascular diseases. To further improve the performance of vessel segmentation, we propose IterNet, a new model based on UNet, with the ability to find obscured details…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-13 Liangzhi Li , Manisha Verma , Yuta Nakashima , Hajime Nagahara , Ryo Kawasaki

We develop a connection sensitive attention U-Net(CSAU) for accurate retinal vessel segmentation. This method improves the recent attention U-Net for semantic segmentation with four key improvements: (1) connection sensitive loss that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Ruirui Li , Mingming Li , Jiacheng Li , Yating Zhou

Segmentation is a crucial step in microscopy image analysis. Numerous approaches have been developed over the past years, ranging from classical segmentation algorithms to advanced deep learning models. While U-Net remains one of the most…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Illia Tsiporenko , Pavel Chizhov , Dmytro Fishman

Retinal image segmentation plays an important role in automatic disease diagnosis. This task is very challenging because the complex structure and texture information are mixed in a retinal image, and distinguishing the information is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Shihao Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Yanwu Xu , Yanxia Liu , Mingkui Tan

Retinal blood vessel segmentation is crucial for diagnosing ocular and cardiovascular diseases. Although the introduction of U-Net in 2015 by Olaf Ronneberger significantly advanced this field, yet issues like limited training data,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Md Tauhidul Islam , Wu Da-Wen , Tang Qing-Qing , Zhao Kai-Yang , Yin Teng , Li Yan-Fei , Shang Wen-Yi , Liu Jing-Yu , Zhang Hai-Xian

In the past few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved milestones in medical image analysis. Especially, the deep neural networks based on U-shaped architecture and skip-connections have been widely applied in a variety…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-13 Hu Cao , Yueyue Wang , Joy Chen , Dongsheng Jiang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Qi Tian , Manning Wang

U-Net is widely used in medical image segmentation due to its simple and flexible architecture design. To address the challenges of scale and complexity in medical tasks, several variants of U-Net have been proposed. In particular, methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Weibin Yang , Zhiqi Dong , Mingyuan Xu , Longwei Xu , Dehua Geng , Yusong Li , Pengwei Wang

Analyzing the morphological attributes of blood vessels plays a critical role in the computer-aided diagnosis of many cardiovascular and ophthalmologic diseases. Although being extensively studied, segmentation of blood vessels,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-12 Yicheng Wu , Chengwei Pan , Shuqi Wang , Ming Zhang , Yong Xia , Yizhou Yu

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

The precise segmentation of retinal blood vessels is of great significance for early diagnosis of eye-related diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. In this work, we propose a lightweight network named Spatial Attention U-Net (SA-UNet)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-22 Changlu Guo , Márton Szemenyei , Yugen Yi , Wenle Wang , Buer Chen , Changqi Fan

The utilisation of deep learning segmentation algorithms that learn complex organs and tissue patterns and extract essential regions of interest from the noisy background to improve the visual ability for medical image diagnosis has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yanming Guo

Automatic segmentation of retinal vessels in fundus images plays an important role in the diagnosis of some diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. In this paper, we propose Deformable U-Net (DUNet), which exploits the retinal vessels'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Qiangguo Jin , Zhaopeng Meng , Tuan D. Pham , Qi Chen , Leyi Wei , Ran Su

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 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

Precise medical image segmentation is fundamental for enabling computer aided diagnosis and effective treatment planning. Traditional models that rely solely on visual features often struggle when confronted with ambiguous or low contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ashfak Yeafi , Parthaw Goswami , Md Khairul Islam , Ashifa Islam Shamme