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Accurate segmentation of the blood vessels of the retina is an important step in clinical diagnosis of ophthalmic diseases. Many deep learning frameworks have come up for retinal blood vessels segmentation tasks. However, the complex…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-08 Ting Zhang , Jun Li , Yi Zhao , Nan Chen , Han Zhou , Hongtao Xu , Zihao Guan , Changcai Yang , Lanyan Xue , Riqing Chen , Lifang Wei

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

Structural changes in retinal blood vessels are critical biomarkers for the onset and progression of glaucoma and other ocular diseases. However, current vessel segmentation approaches largely rely on supervised learning and extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Cheng Huang , Weizheng Xie , Fan Gao , Yutong Liu , Ruoling Wu , Zeyu Han , Jingxi Qiu , Xiangxiang Wang , Zhenglin Yang , Hao Wang , Yongbin Yu

Recent attention-based volumetric segmentation (VS) methods have achieved remarkable performance in the medical domain which focuses on modeling long-range dependencies. However, for voxel-wise prediction tasks, discriminative local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Muhammad Hamza Sharif , Muzammal Naseer , Mohammad Yaqub , Min Xu , Mohsen Guizani

The segmentation of retinal vessels is of significance for doctors to diagnose the fundus diseases. However, existing methods have various problems in the segmentation of the retinal vessels, such as insufficient segmentation of retinal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Yun Jiang , Ning Tan

Human veins are important for carrying the blood from the body-parts to the heart. The improper functioning of the human veins may arise from several venous diseases. Varicose vein is one such disease wherein back flow of blood can occur,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Maryam Viqar , Violeta Madjarova , Vipul Baghel , Elena Stoykova

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

We propose an attention mechanism for 3D medical image segmentation. The method, named segmentation-by-detection, is a cascade of a detection module followed by a segmentation module. The detection module enables a region of interest to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Min Tang , Zichen Zhang , Dana Cobzas , Martin Jagersand , Jacob L. Jaremko

This paper develops a novel encoder-decoder deep network architecture which exploits the several contextual frames of 2D+t sequential images in a sliding window centered at current frame to segment 2D vessel masks from the current frame.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Dongdong Hao , Song Ding , Linwei Qiu , Yisong Lv , Baowei Fei , Yueqi Zhu , Binjie Qin

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

Structural accuracy of segmentation is important for finescale structures in biomedical images. We propose a novel TopologyAttention ConvLSTM Network (TACNet) for 3D image segmentation in order to achieve high structural accuracy for 3D…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Jiaqi Yang , Xiaoling Hu , Chao Chen , Chialing Tsai

Accurate vascular segmentation is essential for coronary visualization and the diagnosis of coronary heart disease. This task involves the extraction of sparse tree-like vascular branches from the volumetric space. However, existing methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-21 Bowen Liu , Chunlei Meng , Wei Lin , Hongda Zhang , Ziqing Zhou , Zhongxue Gan , Chun Ouyang

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is used for non-invasive diagnosis of diabetic macular edema assessing the retinal layers. In this paper, we propose a new fully convolutional deep architecture, termed ReLayNet, for end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Abhijit Guha Roy , Sailesh Conjeti , Sri Phani Krishna Karri , Debdoot Sheet , Amin Katouzian , Christian Wachinger , Nassir Navab

We propose a novel deep-learning-based system for vessel segmentation. Existing methods using CNNs have mostly relied on local appearances learned on the regular image grid, without considering the graphical structure of vessel shape. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Seung Yeon Shin , Soochahn Lee , Il Dong Yun , Kyoung Mu Lee

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

Segmentation of blood vessels in retinal images provides early diagnosis of diseases like glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration. Among these diseases occurrence of Glaucoma is most frequent and has serious ocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-09-07 Nilanjan Dey , Anamitra Bardhan Roy , Moumita Pal , Achintya Das

Blinding eye diseases are often correlated with altered retinal morphology, which can be clinically identified by segmenting retinal structures in fundus images. However, current methodologies often fall short in accurately segmenting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Mufassir M. Abbasi , Shahzaib Iqbal , Asim Naveed , Tariq M. Khan , Syed S. Naqvi , Wajeeha Khalid

Retinal imaging has emerged as a promising method of addressing this challenge, taking advantage of the unique structure of the retina. The retina is an embryonic extension of the central nervous system, providing a direct in vivo window…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Syed Javed , Tariq M. Khan , Abdul Qayyum , Arcot Sowmya , Imran Razzak

Objective: Diabetic macular edema (DME) is the leading cause of severe visual impairment in patients with diabetes. Quantification of retinal fluid, particularly intraretinal fluid (IRF) and subretinal fluid (SRF), plays a critical role in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Zijun Lei , Zikang Xu , Liang Zhang , Ge Song , Hanyu Guo , Dan Cao , Yujia Zhou , Qianjin Feng

Weakly supervised learning has been rapidly advanced in biomedical image analysis to achieve pixel-wise labels (segmentation) from image-wise annotations (classification), as biomedical images naturally contain image-wise labels in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Ruining Deng , Quan Liu , Shunxing Bao , Aadarsh Jha , Catie Chang , Bryan A. Millis , Matthew J. Tyska , Yuankai Huo