Blood vessel segmentation algorithms—review of methods, datasets and evaluation metrics

S Moccia, E De Momi, S El Hadji, LS Mattos - Computer methods and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Blood vessel segmentation is a topic of high interest in medical image analysis
since the analysis of vessels is crucial for diagnosis, treatment planning and execution, and …

Blood vessel segmentation methodologies in retinal images–a survey

MM Fraz, P Remagnino, A Hoppe… - Computer methods and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Retinal vessel segmentation algorithms are a fundamental component of automatic retinal
disease screening systems. This work examines the blood vessel segmentation …

DUNet: A deformable network for retinal vessel segmentation

Q Jin, Z Meng, TD Pham, Q Chen, L Wei… - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2019 - Elsevier
Automatic segmentation of retinal vessels in fundus images plays an important role in the
diagnosis of some diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. In this paper, we propose …

Recurrent residual convolutional neural network based on u-net (r2u-net) for medical image segmentation

MZ Alom, M Hasan, C Yakopcic, TM Taha… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Deep learning (DL) based semantic segmentation methods have been providing state-of-the-
art performance in the last few years. More specifically, these techniques have been …

Recurrent residual U-Net for medical image segmentation

MZ Alom, C Yakopcic, M Hasan… - Journal of medical …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Deep learning (DL)-based semantic segmentation methods have been providing state-of-
the-art performance in the past few years. More specifically, these techniques have been …

Dual encoder-based dynamic-channel graph convolutional network with edge enhancement for retinal vessel segmentation

Y Li, Y Zhang, W Cui, B Lei, X Kuang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Retinal vessel segmentation with deep learning technology is a crucial auxiliary method for
clinicians to diagnose fundus diseases. However, the deep learning approaches inevitably …

Joint segment-level and pixel-wise losses for deep learning based retinal vessel segmentation

Z Yan, X Yang, KT Cheng - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Deep learning based methods for retinal vessel segmentation are usually trained
based on pixel-wise losses, which treat all vessel pixels with equal importance in pixel-to …

Segmenting retinal blood vessels with deep neural networks

P Liskowski, K Krawiec - IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The condition of the vascular network of human eye is an important diagnostic factor in
ophthalmology. Its segmentation in fundus imaging is a nontrivial task due to variable size of …

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 …

A three-stage deep learning model for accurate retinal vessel segmentation

Z Yan, X Yang, KT Cheng - IEEE journal of Biomedical and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic retinal vessel segmentation is a fundamental step in the diagnosis of eye-related
diseases, in which both thick vessels and thin vessels are important features for symptom …