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Segmenting 3D blood vessels is a critical yet challenging task in medical image analysis. This is due to significant imaging modality-specific variations in artifacts, vascular patterns and scales, signal-to-noise ratios, and background…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Bastian Wittmann , Yannick Wattenberg , Tamaz Amiranashvili , Suprosanna Shit , Bjoern Menze

Segmenting the retinal vasculature entails a trade-off between how much of the overall vascular structure we identify vs. how precisely we segment individual vessels. In particular, state-of-the-art methods tend to under-segment faint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Aashis Khanal , Rolando Estrada

Semantic segmentation of blood vessels is an important task in medical image analysis, but its progress is often hindered by the scarcity of large annotated datasets and the poor generalization of models across different imaging modalities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Cesar H. Comin , Wesley N. Galvão

Automatic segmentation of retina vessels plays a pivotal role in clinical diagnosis of prevalent eye diseases, such as, Diabetic Retinopathy or Age-related Macular Degeneration. Due to the complex construction of blood vessels, with…

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Accurate segmentation of brain vessels is crucial for cerebrovascular disease diagnosis and treatment. However, existing methods face challenges in capturing small vessels and handling datasets that are partially or ambiguously annotated.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Fengming Lin , Yan Xia , Nishant Ravikumar , Qiongyao Liu , Michael MacRaild , Alejandro F Frangi

The segmentation of the retinal vasculature from eye fundus images represents one of the most fundamental tasks in retinal image analysis. Over recent years, increasingly complex approaches based on sophisticated Convolutional Neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-07 Adrian Galdran , André Anjos , José Dolz , Hadi Chakor , Hervé Lombaert , Ismail Ben Ayed

The intricate morphology of brain vessels poses significant challenges for automatic segmentation models, which usually focus on a single imaging modality. However, accurately treating brain-related conditions requires a comprehensive…

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We present a semi-supervised domain adaptation framework for brain vessel segmentation from different image modalities. Existing state-of-the-art methods focus on a single modality, despite the wide range of available cerebrovascular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-28 Francesco Galati , Daniele Falcetta , Rosa Cortese , Barbara Casolla , Ferran Prados , Ninon Burgos , Maria A. Zuluaga

Accurate identification of arteries and veins in ultrasound images is crucial for vascular examinations and interventions in robotics-assisted surgeries. However, current methods for ultrasound vessel segmentation face challenges in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-01 Yimeng Geng , Gaofeng Meng , Mingcong Chen , Guanglin Cao , Mingyang Zhao , Jianbo Zhao , Hongbin Liu

The retinal vascular condition is a reliable biomarker of several ophthalmologic and cardiovascular diseases, so automatic vessel segmentation may be crucial to diagnose and monitor them. In this paper, we propose a novel method that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-21 Américo Oliveira , Sérgio Pereira , Carlos A. Silva

The morphological attributes of retinal vessels, such as length, width, tortuosity and branching pattern and angles, play an important role in diagnosis, screening, treatment, and evaluation of various cardiovascular and ophthalmologic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-25 Zhengyuan Liu

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in clinical workflows, but domain shift often leads to performance degradation when models are applied to unseen clinical domains. This challenge arises due to variations in imaging…

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Retinal vessel segmentation serves as a critical prerequisite for automated diagnosis of retinal pathologies. While recent advances in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated promising performance in this task, significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Zhanqiang Guo , Jianjiang Feng , Jie Zhou

State-of-the-art vessel segmentation methods typically require large-scale annotated datasets and suffer from severe performance degradation under domain shifts. In clinical practice, however, acquiring extensive annotations for every new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Kirato Yoshihara , Yohei Sugawara , Yuta Tokuoka , Lihang Hong

Microvascular anatomy is known to be involved in various neurological disorders. However, understanding these disorders is hindered by the lack of imaging modalities capable of capturing the comprehensive three-dimensional vascular network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Etienne Chollet , Yaël Balbastre , Chiara Mauri , Caroline Magnain , Bruce Fischl , Hui Wang

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

We identify two major limitations in the existing studies on retinal vessel segmentation: (1) Most existing works are restricted to one modality, i.e., the Color Fundus (CF). However, multi-modality retinal images are used every day in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Bo Wen , Anna Heinke , Akshay Agnihotri , Dirk-Uwe Bartsch , William Freeman , Truong Nguyen , Cheolhong An

Retinal vascular segmentation, a widely researched topic in biomedical image processing, aims to reduce the workload of ophthalmologists in treating and detecting retinal disorders. Segmenting retinal vessels presents unique challenges;…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Melaku N. Getahun , Oleg Y. Rogov , Dmitry V. Dylov , Andrey Somov , Ahmed Bouridane , Rifat Hamoudi

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…

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