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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…

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We propose a new deep learning approach for automatic detection and segmentation of fluid within retinal OCT images. The proposed framework utilizes both ResNet and Encoder-Decoder neural network architectures. When training the network, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Dustin Morley , Hassan Foroosh , Saad Shaikh , Ulas Bagci

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

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

Learning structural information is critical for producing an ideal result in retinal image segmentation. Recently, convolutional neural networks have shown a powerful ability to extract effective representations. However, convolutional and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-24 Shihao Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Yuguang Yan , Yubing Zhang , Qingyao Wu , Ming Yang , Mingkui Tan , Yanwu Xu

The morphology of retinal blood vessels can indicate various diseases in the human body, and researchers have been working on automatic scanning and segmentation of retinal images to aid diagnosis. This project compares the performance of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-20 Ifeyinwa Linda Anene , Yongmin Li

The morphology of blood vessels in retinal fundus images is an important indicator of diseases like glaucoma, hypertension and diabetic retinopathy. The accuracy of retinal blood vessels segmentation affects the quality of retinal image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 A. M. R. R. Bandara , P. W. G. R. M. P. B. Giragama

Retinal vessel segmentation is a vital step for the diagnosis of many early eye-related diseases. In this work, we propose a new deep learning model, namely Channel Attention Residual U-Net (CAR-UNet), to accurately segment retinal vascular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-22 Changlu Guo , Márton Szemenyei , Yangtao Hu , Wenle Wang , Wei Zhou , Yugen Yi

Accurate segmentation of the optic disc from a retinal image is vital to extracting retinal features that may be highly correlated with retinal conditions such as glaucoma. In this paper, we propose a deep-learning based approach capable of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Abdullah Sarhan , Ali Al-KhazÁly , Adam Gorner , Andrew Swift , Jon Rokne , Reda Alhajj , Andrew Crichton

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

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

Retinal vessel segmentation is a vital early detection method for several severe ocular diseases. Despite significant progress in retinal vessel segmentation with the advancement of Neural Networks, there are still challenges to overcome.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Shuang Zeng , Chee Hong Lee , Micky C Nnamdi , Wenqi Shi , J Ben Tamo , Lei Zhu , Hangzhou He , Xinliang Zhang , Qian Chen , May D. Wang , Yanye Lu , Qiushi Ren

This paper proposed a retinal image segmentation method based on conditional Generative Adversarial Network (cGAN) to segment optic disc. The proposed model consists of two successive networks: generator and discriminator. The generator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Vivek Kumar Singh , Hatem Rashwan , Farhan Akram , Nidhi Pandey , Md. Mostaf Kamal Sarker , Adel Saleh , Saddam Abdulwahab , Najlaa Maaroof , Santiago Romani , Domenec Puig

The appearance and structure of blood vessels in retinal images have an important role in diagnosis of diseases. This paper proposes a method for automatic retinal vessel segmentation. In this work, a novel preprocessing based on local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Saeid Fazli , Sevin Samadi

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

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.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Renoh Johnson Chalakkal , Waleed Abdulla

The accurate segmentation of retinal blood vessels plays a crucial role in the early diagnosis and treatment of various ophthalmic diseases. Designing a network model for this task requires meticulous tuning and extensive experimentation to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Tingting Wu , Ruyi Min , Peixuan Song , Hengtao Guo , Tieyong Zeng , Feng-Lei Fan

Retinal vessel segmentation is a fundamental step in screening, diagnosis, and treatment of various cardiovascular and ophthalmic diseases. Robustness is one of the most critical requirements for practical utilization, since the test images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-29 Xu Sun , Huihui Fang , Yehui Yang , Dongwei Zhu , Lei Wang , Junwei Liu , Yanwu Xu

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

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