A review of machine learning methods for retinal blood vessel segmentation and artery/vein classification

MRK Mookiah, S Hogg, TJ MacGillivray, V Prathiba… - Medical Image …, 2021 - Elsevier
The eye affords a unique opportunity to inspect a rich part of the human microvasculature
non-invasively via retinal imaging. Retinal blood vessel segmentation and classification are …

Recent advancements in retinal vessel segmentation

CL Srinidhi, P Aparna, J Rajan - Journal of medical systems, 2017 - Springer
Retinal vessel segmentation is a key step towards the accurate visualization, diagnosis,
early treatment and surgery planning of ocular diseases. For the last two decades, a …

Lightweight attention convolutional neural network for retinal vessel image segmentation

X Li, Y Jiang, M Li, S Yin - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Retinal vessel image is an important biological information that can be used for personal
identification in the social security domain, and for disease diagnosis in the medical domain …

Fuzzy based image edge detection algorithm for blood vessel detection in retinal images

F Orujov, R Maskeliūnas, R Damaševičius… - Applied Soft Computing, 2020 - Elsevier
We developed a contour detection based image processing algorithm based on Mamdani
(Type-2) fuzzy rules for detection of blood vessels in retinal fundus images. The method …

Retinal vessel segmentation based on fully convolutional neural networks

A Oliveira, S Pereira, CA Silva - Expert Systems with Applications, 2018 - Elsevier
The retinal vascular condition is a reliable biomarker of several ophthalmologic and
cardiovascular diseases, so automatic vessel segmentation may be crucial to diagnose and …

[HTML][HTML] Retinal blood vessels segmentation using classical edge detection filters and the neural network

BS Tchinda, D Tchiotsop, M Noubom… - Informatics in Medicine …, 2021 - Elsevier
Retinal blood vessels analysis is of interest for medical screening, especially in the
diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy. In this paper, we propose a new method for the …

Retinal vessel delineation using a brain-inspired wavelet transform and random forest

J Zhang, Y Chen, E Bekkers, M Wang, B Dashtbozorg… - Pattern Recognition, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a supervised retinal vessel segmentation by incorporating vessel
filtering and wavelet transform features from orientation scores (OSs), and green intensity …

[HTML][HTML] Retinal vessel extraction via assisted multi-channel feature map and U-net

S Bhatia, S Alam, M Shuaib… - Frontiers in Public …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Early detection of vessels from fundus images can effectively prevent the permanent retinal
damages caused by retinopathies such as glaucoma, hyperextension, and diabetes …

Segmentation and classification approaches of clinically relevant curvilinear structures: a review

R Kv, K Prasad, P Peralam Yegneswaran - Journal of Medical Systems, 2023 - Springer
Detection of curvilinear structures from microscopic images, which help the clinicians to
make an unambiguous diagnosis is assuming paramount importance in recent clinical …

Retinal blood vessel segmentation by using the MS-LSDNet network and geometric skeleton reconnection method

H Du, X Zhang, G Song, F Bao, Y Zhang, W Wu… - Computers in Biology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Automatic retinal blood vessel segmentation is a key link in the diagnosis of ophthalmic
diseases. Recent deep learning methods have achieved high accuracy in vessel …