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Medical image segmentation is vital to the area of medical imaging because it enables professionals to more accurately examine and understand the information offered by different imaging modalities. The technique of splitting a medical…

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In ophthalmology, the study of the retinal microcirculation is a key issue in the analysis of many ocular and systemic diseases, like hypertension or diabetes. This motivates the research on improving the retinal vasculature segmentation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-23 José Morano , Álvaro S. Hervella , Noelia Barreira , Jorge Novo , José Rouco

Retinal vessel information is helpful in retinal disease screening and diagnosis. Retinal vessel segmentation provides useful information about vessels and can be used by physicians during intraocular surgery and retinal diagnostic…

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Automating classification and segmentation process of abnormal regions in different body organs has a crucial role in most of medical imaging applications such as funduscopy, endoscopy, and dermoscopy. Detecting multiple abnormalities in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Reza Esfandiarpoor , Elyas Sabeti , Nader Karimi , Kayvan Najarian , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , Shadrokh Samavi

Since medical image data sets contain few samples and singular features, lesions are viewed as highly similar to other tissues. The traditional neural network has a limited ability to learn features. Even if a host of feature maps is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Hongfeng You , Long Yu , Shengwei Tian , Xiang Ma , Yan Xing , Xiaojie Ma

Convolutional neural networks are continually evolving, with some efforts aimed at improving accuracy, others at increasing speed, and some at enhancing accessibility. Improving accessibility broadens the application of neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Amin Ahmadi Kasani , Hedieh Sajedi

Clinically, automated polyp segmentation techniques have the potential to significantly improve the efficiency and accuracy of medical diagnosis, thereby reducing the risk of colorectal cancer in patients. Unfortunately, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Junzhuo Liu , Qiaosong Chen , Ye Zhang , Zhixiang Wang , Deng Xin , Jin Wang

Current state-of-the-art medical image segmentation methods prioritize accuracy but often at the expense of increased computational demands and larger model sizes. Applying these large-scale models to the relatively limited scale of medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jiahui Zhong , Wenhong Tian , Yuanlun Xie , Zhijia Liu , Jie Ou , Taoran Tian , Lei 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

This paper attacks an emerging challenge of multi-modal retinal disease recognition. Given a multi-modal case consisting of a color fundus photo (CFP) and an array of OCT B-scan images acquired during an eye examination, we aim to build a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Xirong Li , Yang Zhou , Jie Wang , Hailan Lin , Jianchun Zhao , Dayong Ding , Weihong Yu , Youxin Chen

Image super-resolution reconstruction achieves better results than traditional methods with the help of the powerful nonlinear representation ability of convolution neural network. However, some existing algorithms also have some problems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Yuxi Cai , Huicheng Lai

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

Retinal lesions play a vital role in the accurate classification of retinal abnormalities. Many researchers have proposed deep lesion-aware screening systems that analyze and grade the progression of retinopathy. However, to the best of our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Taimur Hassan , Muhammad Usman Akram , Naoufel Werghi

Fundus image segmentation on unseen domains is challenging, especially for the over-parameterized deep models trained on the small medical datasets. To address this challenge, we propose a method named Adaptive Feature-fusion Neural Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Jiyuan Zhong , Hu Ke , Ming Yan

Diagnosing different retinal diseases from Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT) images is a challenging task. Different automated approaches such as image processing, machine learning and deep learning algorithms have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Sharif Amit Kamran , Sourajit Saha , Ali Shihab Sabbir , Alireza Tavakkoli

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of vision loss globally. Yet despite its prevalence, the majority of affected people lack access to the specialized ophthalmologists and equipment required for assessing their condition. This can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Alexandros Papadopoulos , Fotis Topouzis , Anastasios Delopoulos

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

Ophthalmic images may contain identical-looking pathologies that can cause failure in automated techniques to distinguish different retinal degenerative diseases. Additionally, reliance on large annotated datasets and lack of knowledge…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Sharif Amit Kamran , Khondker Fariha Hossain , Alireza Tavakkoli , Stewart Lee Zuckerbrod , Salah A. Baker

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

The joint interpretation of multi-modal and multi-view fundus images is critical for retinopathy prevention, as different views can show the complete 3D eyeball field and different modalities can provide complementary lesion areas. Compared…

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