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The accuracy of finger vein recognition systems gets degraded due to low and uneven contrast between veins and surroundings, often resulting in poor detection of vein patterns. We propose a finger-vein enhancement technique, ResFPN…

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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

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-21 Yihao Ouyang , Xunheng Kuang , Mengjia Xiong , Zhida Wang , Yuanquan Wang

Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is challenging because of the complex texture of retinal vessels and low imaging contrast. Previous methods generally refine segmentation results by cascading multiple deep networks, which are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-07 Mingxing Li , Shenglong Zhou , Chang Chen , Yueyi Zhang , Dong Liu , Zhiwei Xiong

Recent interactive segmentation methods iteratively take source image, user guidance and previously predicted mask as the input without considering the invariant nature of the source image. As a result, extracting features from the source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Huimin Zeng , Weinong Wang , Xin Tao , Zhiwei Xiong , Yu-Wing Tai , Wenjie Pei

In the isointense stage, the accurate volumetric image segmentation is a challenging task due to the low contrast between tissues. In this paper, we propose a novel very deep network architecture based on a densely convolutional network for…

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The analysis of retinal images for the diagnosis of various diseases is one of the emerging areas of research. Recently, the research direction has been inclined towards investigating several changes in retinal blood vessels in subjects…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Mehwish Mehmood , Shahzaib Iqbal , Tariq Mahmood Khan , Ivor Spence , Muhammad Fahim

The caliber and configuration of retinal blood vessels serve as important biomarkers for various diseases and medical conditions. A thorough analysis of the retinal vasculature requires the segmentation of the blood vessels and their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 José Morano , Guilherme Aresta , Hrvoje Bogunović

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for automatic medical image segmentation. However, they have not demonstrated sufficiently accurate and robust results for clinical use. In addition, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Guotai Wang , Wenqi Li , Maria A. Zuluaga , Rosalind Pratt , Premal A. Patel , Michael Aertsen , Tom Doel , Anna L. David , Jan Deprest , Sebastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren

Retinal blood vessels structure contains information about diseases like obesity, diabetes, hypertension and glaucoma. This information is very useful in identification and treatment of these fatal diseases. To obtain this information,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Sushil Kumar Saroj , Vikas Ratna , Rakesh Kumar , Nagendra Pratap Singh

Previous research on retinal vessel segmentation is targeted at a specific image domain, mostly color fundus photography (CFP). In this paper we make a brave attempt to attack a more challenging task of broad-domain retinal vessel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Qijie Wei , Weihong Yu , Xirong Li

The retina is the only part of the human body in which blood vessels can be accessed non-invasively using imaging techniques such as digital fundus images (DFI). The spatial distribution of the retinal microvasculature may change with…

Residual network (ResNet) and densely connected network (DenseNet) have significantly improved the training efficiency and performance of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) mainly for object classification tasks. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Mina Jafari , Dorothee Auer , Susan Francis , Jonathan Garibaldi , Xin Chen

Vascular segmentation represents a crucial clinical task, yet its automation remains challenging. Because of the recent strides in deep learning, vesselness filters, which can significantly aid the learning process, have been overlooked.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Guillaume Garret , Antoine Vacavant , Carole Frindel

Background and Objective: The condition of vessel of the human eye is an important factor for the diagnosis of ophthalmological diseases. Vessel segmentation in fundus images is a challenging task due to complex vessel structure, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Song Guo , Kai Wang , Hong Kang , Yujun Zhang , Yingqi Gao , Tao Li

High fidelity segmentation of both macro and microvascular structure of the retina plays a pivotal role in determining degenerative retinal diseases, yet it is a difficult problem. Due to successive resolution loss in the encoding phase…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Sharif Amit Kamran , Khondker Fariha Hossain , Alireza Tavakkoli , Stewart Lee Zuckerbrod , Kenton M. Sanders , Salah A. Baker

The detection of retinal vessel is of great importance in the diagnosis and treatment of many ocular diseases. Many methods have been proposed for vessel detection. However, most of the algorithms neglect the connectivity of the vessels,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-29 Lei Mou , Li Chen , Jun Cheng , Zaiwang Gu , Yitian Zhao , Jiang Liu

Medical image segmentation is a critical task in computer vision, with UNet serving as a milestone architecture. The typical component of UNet family is the skip connection, however, their skip connections face two significant limitations:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Quansong He , Xiangde Min , Kaishen Wang , Tao He

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