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Precision in identifying and differentiating micro and macro blood vessels in the retina is crucial for the diagnosis of retinal diseases, although it poses a significant challenge. Current autoencoding-based segmentation approaches…

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Vessel structure is one of the most important parts of the retina which physicians can detect many diseases by analysing its features. Localization of blood vessels in retina images is an important process in medical image analysis. This…

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Accurate detection of retinal vessels plays a critical role in reflecting a wide range of health status indicators in the clinical diagnosis of ocular diseases. Recently, advances in deep learning have led to a surge in retinal vessel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiawen Liu , Yuanbo Zeng , Jiaming Liang , Yizhen Yang , Yiheng Zhang , Enhui Cai , Xiaoqi Sheng , Hongmin Cai

Blood vessel segmentation is crucial for many diagnostic and research applications. In recent years, CNN-based models have leaded to breakthroughs in the task of segmentation, however, such methods usually lose high-frequency information…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Mo Zhang , Fei Yu , Jie Zhao , Li Zhang , Quanzheng Li

Segmentation of cerebral blood vessels from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an open problem that could be solved with deep learning (DL). However, annotated data for training is often scarce. Due to the absence of open-source tools, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-10 Georgia Kenyon , Stephan Lau , Michael A. Chappell , Mark Jenkinson

Diabetic retinopathy is the most important complication of diabetes. Early diagnosis of retinal lesions helps to avoid visual loss or blindness. Due to high-resolution and small-size lesion regions, applying existing methods, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Zizheng Yan , Xiaoguang Han , Changmiao Wang , Yuda Qiu , Zixiang Xiong , Shuguang Cui

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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The treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) requires continuous eye exams using optical coherence tomography (OCT). The need for treatment is determined by the presence or change of disease-specific OCT-based biomarkers.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Timo Kepp , Helge Sudkamp , Claus von der Burchard , Hendrik Schenke , Peter Koch , Gereon Hüttmann , Johann Roider , Mattias P. Heinrich , Heinz Handels

Deep learning techniques are recently being used in fundus image analysis and diabetic retinopathy detection. Microaneurysms are an important indicator of diabetic retinopathy progression. We introduce a two-stage deep learning approach for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-25 Mhd Hasan Sarhan , Shadi Albarqouni , Mehmet Yigitsoy , Nassir Navab , Abouzar Eslami

This paper presents a comparative analysis of deep learning strategies for detecting hypertensive retinopathy from fundus images, a central task in the HRDC challenge~\cite{qian2025hrdc}. We investigate three distinct approaches: a custom…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yanqiao Zhu

In recent years, several automatic segmentation methods have been proposed for blood vessels in retinal fundus images, ranging from using cheap and fast trainable filters to complicated neural networks and even deep learning. One example of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-30 Michiel Straat , Jorrit Oosterhof

Deep learning-based medical image segmentation technology aims at automatic recognizing and annotating objects on the medical image. Non-local attention and feature learning by multi-scale methods are widely used to model network, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Bo Wang , Lei Wang , Junyang Chen , Zhenghua Xu , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Zhigang Fu

In this work, we utilize image segmentation to visually identify blood vessels in retinal examination images. This process is typically carried out manually. However, we can employ heuristic methods and machine learning to automate or at…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-01 João Henrique Pereira Machado , Gilson Adamczuk Oliveira , Érick Oliveira Rodrigues

Retinal blood vessel can assist doctors in diagnosis of eye-related diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, and its segmentation is particularly important for automatic retinal image analysis. However, it is challenging to segment these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Jiawei Zhang , Yanchun Zhang , Xiaowei Xu

Automated fetal head segmentation in ultrasound images is critical for accurate biometric measurements in prenatal care. While existing deep learning approaches have achieved a reasonable performance, they struggle with issues like low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ammar Bhilwarawala , Mainak Bandyopadhyay

Deep learning algorithms have become the golden standard for segmentation of medical imaging data. In most works, the variability and heterogeneity of real clinical data is acknowledged to still be a problem. One way to automatically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-25 Arkadiy Dushatskiy , Gerry Lowe , Peter A. N. Bosman , Tanja Alderliesten

The health and function of tissue rely on its vasculature network to provide reliable blood perfusion. Volumetric imaging approaches, such as multiphoton microscopy, are able to generate detailed 3D images of blood vessels that could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Mohammad Haft-Javaherian , Linjing Fang , Victorine Muse , Chris B. Schaffer , Nozomi Nishimura , Mert R. Sabuncu

Image processing techniques provide important assistance to physicians and relieve their workload in different tasks. In particular, identifying objects of interest such as lesions and anatomical structures from the image is a challenging…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Meysam Tavakoli , Mahdieh Nazar

Deep learning approaches may help radiologists in the early diagnosis and timely treatment of cerebrovascular diseases. Accurate cerebral vessel segmentation of Time-of-Flight Magnetic Resonance Angiographs (TOF-MRAs) is an essential step…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-25 V. de Vos , K. M. Timmins , I. C. van der Schaaf , Y. Ruigrok , B. K. Velthuis , H. J. Kuijf

In interventional radiology, short video sequences of vein structure in motion are captured in order to help medical personnel identify vascular issues or plan intervention. Semantic segmentation can greatly improve the usefulness of these…

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