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The automatic segmentation of blood vessels in fundus images can help analyze the condition of retinal vasculature, which is crucial for identifying various systemic diseases like hypertension, diabetes, etc. Despite the success of Deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Ashish Kumar , R. K. Agrawal , Leve Joseph

Background and Objective: In the realm of ophthalmic imaging, accurate vascular segmentation is paramount for diagnosing and managing various eye diseases. Contemporary deep learning-based vascular segmentation models rival human accuracy…

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Road segmentation is a fundamental perception task for autonomous driving and intelligent robotic systems, requiring both high accuracy and real-time inference, especially for deployment on resource-constrained edge devices. Existing…

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Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is an important task for many computer-aided diagnosis systems. Yet, it is still a challenging problem due to the complex vessel structures of an eye. Numerous vessel segmentation methods have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Ali Karaali , Rozenn Dahyot , Donal J. Sexton

Vascular structures in the retina contain important information for the detection and analysis of ocular diseases, including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. Commonly used modalities in diagnosis of these…

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Retinal vessel segmentation is crucial for diagnosis and assessment of ocular diseases. Notably, segmentation of small retinal vessels has been consistently recognized as a challenging and complex task. To tackle this challenge, we design a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yuanyuan Peng , Wen Li

From diagnosing neovascular diseases to detecting white matter lesions, accurate tiny vessel segmentation in fundus images is critical. Promising results for accurate vessel segmentation have been known. However, their effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Suraj Mishra , Danny Z. Chen , X. Sharon Hu

In this study, the performance of existing U-shaped neural network architectures was enhanced for medical image segmentation by adding Transformer. Although Transformer architectures are powerful at extracting global information, its…

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Diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration pose a significant risk to vision, highlighting the importance of precise segmentation of retinal vessels for the tracking and diagnosis of progression. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Tariq M. Khan , Muhammad Arsalan , Shahzaib Iqbal , Imran Razzak , Erik Meijering

Recent advancements in medical imaging have resulted in more complex and diverse images, with challenges such as high anatomical variability, blurred tissue boundaries, low organ contrast, and noise. Traditional segmentation methods…

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Accurate segmentation of skin lesions within dermoscopic images plays a crucial role in the timely identification of skin cancer for computer-aided diagnosis on mobile platforms. However, varying shapes of the lesions, lack of defined…

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The utilisation of deep learning segmentation algorithms that learn complex organs and tissue patterns and extract essential regions of interest from the noisy background to improve the visual ability for medical image diagnosis has…

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Convolutional blocks have played a crucial role in advancing medical image segmentation by excelling in dense prediction tasks. However, their inability to effectively capture long-range dependencies has limited their performance.…

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Limited by equipment limitations and the lack of target intrinsic features, existing infrared small target detection methods have difficulty meeting actual comprehensive performance requirements. Therefore, we propose an innovative…

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The vascular structure of blood vessels is important in diagnosing retinal conditions such as glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy. Accurate segmentation of these vessels can help in detecting retinal objects such as the optic disc and optic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 Abdullah Sarhan , Jon Rokne , Reda Alhajj , Andrew Crichton

Segmentation of macro and microvascular structures in fundoscopic retinal images plays a crucial role in the detection of multiple retinal and systemic diseases, yet it is a difficult problem to solve. Most neural network approaches face…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Shikhar Mohan , Saumik Bhattacharya , Sayantari Ghosh

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…

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Accurate segmentation of retinal vessels is a basic step in Diabetic retinopathy(DR) detection. Most methods based on deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) have small receptive fields, and hence they are unable to capture global context…

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