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Retinal image plays a crucial role in diagnosing various diseases, as retinal structures provide essential diagnostic information. However, effectively capturing structural features while integrating them with contextual information from…

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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…

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Abnormalities in retinal fundus images may indicate certain pathologies such as diabetic retinopathy, hypertension, stroke, glaucoma, retinal macular edema, venous occlusion, and atherosclerosis, making the study and analysis of retinal…

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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

Retinal vessel segmentation from retinal images is an essential task for developing the computer-aided diagnosis system for retinal diseases. Efforts have been made on high-performance deep learning-based approaches to segment the retinal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-08 Yuqian Zhou , Hanchao Yu , Humphrey Shi

In this study, we propose LDMRes-Net, a lightweight dual-multiscale residual block-based computational neural network tailored for medical image segmentation on IoT and edge platforms. Conventional U-Net-based models face challenges in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Shahzaib Iqbal , Tariq M. Khan , Syed S. Naqvi , Muhammad Usman , Imran Razzak

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

Retinal vessel segmentation methods based on standard overlap losses tend to miss thin peripheral vessels because these structures occupy very few pixels and have low contrast against the background. We propose HMS-VesselNet, a hierarchical…

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In recent years, the incidence of vision-threatening eye diseases has risen dramatically, necessitating scalable and accurate screening solutions. This paper presents a comprehensive study on deep learning architectures for the automated…

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The precise detection of blood vessels in retinal images is crucial to the early diagnosis of the retinal vascular diseases, e.g., diabetic, hypertensive and solar retinopathies. Existing works often fail in predicting the abnormal areas,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-23 Jun Wang , Yang Zhao , Linglong Qian , Xiaohan Yu , Yongsheng Gao

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 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…

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The retinal vasculature provides important clues in the diagnosis and monitoring of systemic diseases including hypertension and diabetes. The microvascular system is of primary involvement in such conditions, and the retina is the only…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Ali Hatamizadeh , Hamid Hosseini , Niraj Patel , Jinseo Choi , Cameron C. Pole , Cory M. Hoeferlin , Steven D. Schwartz , Demetri Terzopoulos

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.…

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The real-time segmentation of surgical instruments plays a crucial role in robot-assisted surgery. However, it is still a challenging task to implement deep learning models to do real-time segmentation for surgical instruments due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Zhen-Liang Ni , Gui-Bin Bian , Zeng-Guang Hou , Xiao-Hu Zhou , Xiao-Liang Xie , Zhen Li

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

Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is a critical prerequisite for quantitative analysis of retinal images and computer-aided diagnosis of vascular diseases such as diabetic retinopathy. However, the elongated morphology, wide scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Ruiqi Song , Lei Liu , Ya-Nan Zhang , Chao Wang , Xiaoning Li , Nan Mu

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

The extensive computational burden limits the usage of CNNs in mobile devices for dense estimation tasks. In this paper, we present a lightweight network to address this problem,namely LEDNet, which employs an asymmetric encoder-decoder…

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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…

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