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Accurate retinal vessel segmentation provides essential structural information for ophthalmic image analysis. However, existing methods struggle with challenges such as multi-scale vessel variability, complex curvatures, and ambiguous…

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Medical image segmentation is a crucial task in the field of medical image analysis. Harmonizing the convolution and multi-head self-attention mechanism is a recent research focus in this field, with various combination methods proposed.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-28 Lichao Wang , Jiahao Huang , Xiaodan Xing , Guang Yang

A large number of retinal vessel analysis methods based on image segmentation have emerged in recent years. However, existing methods depend on cumbersome backbones, such as VGG16 and ResNet-50, benefiting from their powerful feature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-25 Ling Luo , Dingyu Xue , Xinglong Feng

Effective retinal vessel segmentation requires a sophisticated integration of global contextual awareness and local vessel continuity. To address this challenge, we propose the Graph Capsule Convolution Network (GCC-UNet), which merges…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Xinxu Wei , Xi Lin , Haiyun Liu , Shixuan Zhao , Yongjie Li

Purpose: Automatic and accurate segmentation of fundus vessel images has become an essential prerequisite for computer-aided diagnosis of ophthalmic diseases such as diabetes mellitus. The task of high-precision retinal vessel segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 Xiang Li , Mingsi Liu , Lixin Duan

The precise detection of blood vessels in retinal images is crucial to the early diagnosis of the retinal vascular diseases, e.g., diabetic, hypertensive and solar retinopathies. Existing works often fail in predicting the abnormal areas,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-23 Jun Wang , Yang Zhao , Linglong Qian , Xiaohan Yu , Yongsheng Gao

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

Automatic analysis of retinal blood images is of vital importance in diagnosis tasks of retinopathy. Segmenting vessels accurately is a fundamental step in analysing retinal images. However, it is usually difficult due to various imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Yishuo Zhang , Albert C. S. Chung

Segmentation for tracking surgical instruments plays an important role in robot-assisted surgery. Segmentation of surgical instruments contributes to capturing accurate spatial information for tracking. In this paper, a novel network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Zhen-Liang Ni , Gui-Bin Bian , Xiao-Liang Xie , Zeng-Guang Hou , Xiao-Hu Zhou , Yan-Jie Zhou

The accurate segmentation of medical images is critical for various healthcare applications. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), especially Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) like U-Net, have shown remarkable success in medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Omid Nejati Manzari , Javad Mirzapour Kaleybar , Hooman Saadat , Shahin Maleki

Breast ultrasound (BUS) image segmentation plays a crucial role in a computer-aided diagnosis system, which is regarded as a useful tool to help increase the accuracy of breast cancer diagnosis. Recently, many deep learning methods have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-24 Zhenyuan Ning , Ke Wang , Shengzhou Zhong , Qianjin Feng , Yu Zhang

In the medical domain, acquiring large datasets poses significant challenges due to privacy concerns. Nonetheless, the development of a robust deep-learning model for retinal disease diagnosis necessitates a substantial dataset for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Fatema-E- Jannat , Sina Gholami , Jennifer I. Lim , Theodore Leng , Minhaj Nur Alam , Hamed Tabkhi

Retinal vessel segmentation is of great clinical significance for the diagnosis of many eye-related diseases, but it is still a formidable challenge due to the intricate vascular morphology. With the skillful characterization of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-09 Zihong Sun , Hong Wang , Qi Xie , Yefeng Zheng , Deyu Meng

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

Accurate segmentation is crucial for clinical applications, but existing models often assume fixed, high-resolution inputs and degrade significantly when faced with lower-resolution data in real-world scenarios. To address this limitation,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Simon Winther Albertsen , Hjalte Svaneborg Bjørnstrup , Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi

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

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is essential for diagnosing conditions such as glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and age-related macular degeneration. Accurate retinal layer segmentation enables quantitative biomarkers critical for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 S M Asiful Islam Saky , Ugyen Tshering

Retinal vessels segmentation is well known problem in image processing on the medical field. Good segmentation may help doctors take better decisions while diagnose eyes disuses. This paper describes our work taking up the DRIVE challenge…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-31 Nadav Potesman , Ariel Rechtman

In recent years, U-Net and its variants have been widely used in pathology image segmentation tasks. One of the key designs of U-Net is the use of skip connections between the encoder and decoder, which helps to recover detailed information…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Zongyi Li , Hongbing Lyu , Jun Wang

Inner Retinal neurons are a most essential part of the retina and they are supplied with blood via retinal vessels. This paper primarily focuses on the segmentation of retinal vessels using a triple preprocessing approach. DRIVE database…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-26 Mahendra Kumar Gourisaria , Vinayak Singh , Manoj Sahni