Dense-Atrous U-Net with salient computing for Accurate Retina Vessel Segmentation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Min Li ◽  
Geng-Sheng Chen ◽  
Shu-Yang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Vessel Segmentation ◽  
Retina Vessel

scholarly journals A Multichannel Deep Neural Network for Retina Vessel Segmentation via a Fusion Mechanism

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaqi Ding ◽  
Zehua Zhang ◽  
Jijun Tang ◽  
Fei Guo
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Blood Vessels ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Deep Neural Network ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Vessel Segmentation ◽  
Prediction Probability ◽  
Binary Segmentation ◽  
Public Datasets ◽  
Retina Vessel

Changes in fundus blood vessels reflect the occurrence of eye diseases, and from this, we can explore other physical diseases that cause fundus lesions, such as diabetes and hypertension complication. However, the existing computational methods lack high efficiency and precision segmentation for the vascular ends and thin retina vessels. It is important to construct a reliable and quantitative automatic diagnostic method for improving the diagnosis efficiency. In this study, we propose a multichannel deep neural network for retina vessel segmentation. First, we apply U-net on original and thin (or thick) vessels for multi-objective optimization for purposively training thick and thin vessels. Then, we design a specific fusion mechanism for combining three kinds of prediction probability maps into a final binary segmentation map. Experiments show that our method can effectively improve the segmentation performances of thin blood vessels and vascular ends. It outperforms many current excellent vessel segmentation methods on three public datasets. In particular, it is pretty impressive that we achieve the best F1-score of 0.8247 on the DRIVE dataset and 0.8239 on the STARE dataset. The findings of this study have the potential for the application in an automated retinal image analysis, and it may provide a new, general, and high-performance computing framework for image segmentation.

Feature Disentanglement For Cross-Domain Retina Vessel Segmentation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Wang ◽  
Chaoliang Zhong ◽  
Cheng Feng ◽  
Jun Sun ◽  
Yasuto Yokota
Keyword(s):  
Vessel Segmentation ◽  
Cross Domain ◽  
Retina Vessel

scholarly journals Self-relabeling for noise-tolerant retina vessel segmentation through label reliability estimation

2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiacheng Li ◽  
Ruirui Li ◽  
Ruize Han ◽  
Song Wang
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Retinal Vessel ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Vessel Segmentation ◽  
Reliability Estimation ◽  
Learning Performance ◽  
Network Training ◽  
Retinal Vessel Segmentation ◽  
Noise Tolerant ◽  
Retina Vessel

Abstract Background Retinal vessel segmentation benefits significantly from deep learning. Its performance relies on sufficient training images with accurate ground-truth segmentation, which are usually manually annotated in the form of binary pixel-wise label maps. Manually annotated ground-truth label maps, more or less, contain errors for part of the pixels. Due to the thin structure of retina vessels, such errors are more frequent and serious in manual annotations, which negatively affect deep learning performance. Methods In this paper, we develop a new method to automatically and iteratively identify and correct such noisy segmentation labels in the process of network training. We consider historical predicted label maps of network-in-training from different epochs and jointly use them to self-supervise the predicted labels during training and dynamically correct the supervised labels with noises. Results We conducted experiments on the three datasets of DRIVE, STARE and CHASE-DB1 with synthetic noises, pseudo-labeled noises, and manually labeled noises. For synthetic noise, the proposed method corrects the original noisy label maps to a more accurate label map by 4.0–$$9.8\%$$ 9.8 % on $$F_1$$ F 1 and 10.7–$$16.8\%$$ 16.8 % on PR on three testing datasets. For the other two types of noise, the method could also improve the label map quality. Conclusions Experiment results verified that the proposed method could achieve better retinal image segmentation performance than many existing methods by simultaneously correcting the noise in the initial label map.

scholarly journals Retinal Vessel Segmentation by Deep Residual Learning with Wide Activation

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Yuliang Ma ◽  
Xue Li ◽  
Xiaopeng Duan ◽  
Yun Peng ◽  
Yingchun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Blood Vessel ◽  
Blood Vessels ◽  
Area Under The Curve ◽  
Retinal Vessel ◽  
Vessel Segmentation ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Retinal Blood Vessel ◽  
Low Contrast ◽  
Blood Vessel Segmentation ◽  
Small Vessels

Purpose. Retinal blood vessel image segmentation is an important step in ophthalmological analysis. However, it is difficult to segment small vessels accurately because of low contrast and complex feature information of blood vessels. The objective of this study is to develop an improved retinal blood vessel segmentation structure (WA-Net) to overcome these challenges. Methods. This paper mainly focuses on the width of deep learning. The channels of the ResNet block were broadened to propagate more low-level features, and the identity mapping pathway was slimmed to maintain parameter complexity. A residual atrous spatial pyramid module was used to capture the retinal vessels at various scales. We applied weight normalization to eliminate the impacts of the mini-batch and improve segmentation accuracy. The experiments were performed on the DRIVE and STARE datasets. To show the generalizability of WA-Net, we performed cross-training between datasets. Results. The global accuracy and specificity within datasets were 95.66% and 96.45% and 98.13% and 98.71%, respectively. The accuracy and area under the curve of the interdataset diverged only by 1%∼2% compared with the performance of the corresponding intradataset. Conclusion. All the results show that WA-Net extracts more detailed blood vessels and shows superior performance on retinal blood vessel segmentation tasks.

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