Review on Segmentation Techniques used in Optic Disc and Blood Vessel Segmentation

Author(s):  
Rahul Jadhav ◽  
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Manish Narnaware ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 160 (7) ◽  
pp. 32-36
Author(s):  
Bhavya K. ◽  
Anjali K. ◽  
Remya P.

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 3777 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun Jiang ◽  
Falin Wang ◽  
Jing Gao ◽  
Simin Cao

Diabetes can induce diseases including diabetic retinopathy, cataracts, glaucoma, etc. The blindness caused by these diseases is irreversible. Early analysis of retinal fundus images, including optic disc and optic cup detection and retinal blood vessel segmentation, can effectively identify these diseases. The existing methods lack sufficient discrimination power for the fundus image and are easily affected by pathological regions. This paper proposes a novel multi-path recurrent U-Net architecture to achieve the segmentation of retinal fundus images. The effectiveness of the proposed network structure was proved by two segmentation tasks: optic disc and optic cup segmentation and retinal vessel segmentation. Our method achieved state-of-the-art results in the segmentation of the Drishti-GS1 dataset. Regarding optic disc segmentation, the accuracy and Dice values reached 0.9967 and 0.9817, respectively; as regards optic cup segmentation, the accuracy and Dice values reached 0.9950 and 0.8921, respectively. Our proposed method was also verified on the retinal blood vessel segmentation dataset DRIVE and achieved a good accuracy rate.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Yuliang Ma ◽  
Xue Li ◽  
Xiaopeng Duan ◽  
Yun Peng ◽  
Yingchun Zhang

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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