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Retinal vessel information is helpful in retinal disease screening and diagnosis. Retinal vessel segmentation provides useful information about vessels and can be used by physicians during intraocular surgery and retinal diagnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-23 M. Hajabdollahi , R. Esfandiarpoor , S. M. R. Soroushmehr , N. Karimi , S. Samavi , K. Najarian

The accurate segmentation of retinal vessels in fundus images is a great challenge in medical image segmentation tasks due to their highly complex structure from other organs.Currently, deep-learning based methods for retinal cessel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yiwang Dong , Xiangyu Deng

Uncertainty estimation is critical for reliable medical image segmentation, particularly in retinal vessel analysis, where accurate predictions are essential for diagnostic applications. Deep Ensembles, where multiple networks are trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jeremiah Fadugba , Petru Manescu , Bolanle Oladejo , Delmiro Fernandez-Reyes , Philipp Berens

Retinal vessel segmentation is an indispensable step for automatic detection of retinal diseases with fundoscopic images. Though many approaches have been proposed, existing methods tend to miss fine vessels or allow false positives at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Jaemin Son , Sang Jun Park , Kyu-Hwan Jung

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

Brain vessel segmentation of MR scans is a critical step in the diagnosis of cerebrovascular diseases. Due to the fine vessel structure, manual vessel segmentation is time consuming. Therefore, automatic deep learning (DL) based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Omini Rathore , Richard Paul , Abigail Morrison , Hanno Scharr , Elisabeth Pfaehler

Recent advances in appearance-based models have shown improved eye tracking performance in difficult scenarios like occlusion due to eyelashes, eyelids or camera placement, and environmental reflections on the cornea and glasses. The key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Aayush K. Chaudhary , Prashnna K. Gyawali , Linwei Wang , Jeff B. Pelz

Retinal vessel segmentation based on deep learning requires a lot of manual labeled data. That is time-consuming, laborious and professional. What is worse, the acquisition of abundant fundus images is difficult. These problems are more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-13 Qiang Huo

Developing efficient vessel-tracking algorithms is crucial for imaging-based diagnosis and treatment of vascular diseases. Vessel tracking aims to solve recognition problems such as key (seed) point detection, centerline extraction, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Dengqiang Jia , Xiahai Zhuang

Towards automated retinal screening, this paper makes an endeavor to simultaneously achieve pixel-level retinal lesion segmentation and image-level disease classification. Such a multi-task approach is crucial for accurate and clinically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Qijie Wei , Xirong Li , Weihong Yu , Xiao Zhang , Yongpeng Zhang , Bojie Hu , Bin Mo , Di Gong , Ning Chen , Dayong Ding , Youxin Chen

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a commonly-used method of extracting high resolution retinal information. Moreover there is an increasing demand for the automated retinal layer segmentation which facilitates the retinal disease…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-30 Zeyu Fu , Yang Sun , Xiangyu Zhang , Scott Stainton , Shaun Barney , Jeffry Hogg , William Innes , Satnam Dlay

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

The precise segmentation of retinal blood vessels is of great significance for early diagnosis of eye-related diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. In this work, we propose a lightweight network named Spatial Attention U-Net (SA-UNet)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-22 Changlu Guo , Márton Szemenyei , Yugen Yi , Wenle Wang , Buer Chen , Changqi Fan

Analysis of retinal fundus images is essential for eye-care physicians in the diagnosis, care and treatment of patients. Accurate fundus and/or retinal vessel maps give rise to longitudinal studies able to utilize multimedia image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Henry A Leopold , Jeff Orchard , John S Zelek , Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a complication of long-standing, unchecked diabetes and one of the leading causes of blindness in the world. This paper focuses on improved and robust methods to extract some of the features of DR, viz. Blood…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Soham Basu , Sayantan Mukherjee , Ankit Bhattacharya , Anindya Sen

Medical image segmentation is crucial for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning, especially when dealing with complex anatomical structures such as vessels. However, accurately segmenting vessels remains challenging due to their small…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Adnan Iltaf , Rayan Merghani Ahmed , Zhenxi Zhang , Bin Li , Shoujun Zhou

We propose a new deep learning approach for automatic detection and segmentation of fluid within retinal OCT images. The proposed framework utilizes both ResNet and Encoder-Decoder neural network architectures. When training the network, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Dustin Morley , Hassan Foroosh , Saad Shaikh , Ulas Bagci

Preventable or undiagnosed visual impairment and blindness affect billion of people worldwide. Automated multi-disease detection models offer great potential to address this problem via clinical decision support in diagnosis. In this work,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-30 Dominik Müller , Iñaki Soto-Rey , Frank Kramer

Accurate fine-grained segmentation of the renal vasculature is critical for nephrological analysis, yet it faces challenges due to diverse and insufficiently annotated images. Existing methods struggle to accurately segment intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yitian Long , Zhongze Wu , Xiu Su , Lining Yu , Ruining Deng , Haichun Yang , Yuankai Huo

The retina is the only part of the human body in which blood vessels can be accessed non-invasively using imaging techniques such as digital fundus images (DFI). The spatial distribution of the retinal microvasculature may change with…