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 …

A review of retinal blood vessels extraction techniques: challenges, taxonomy, and future trends

KB Khan, AA Khaliq, A Jalil, MA Iftikhar, N Ullah… - Pattern Analysis and …, 2019 - Springer
The visual exploration of retinal blood vessels assists ophthalmologists in the diagnoses of
different abnormalities of the eyes such as diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, cardiovascular …

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 …

A discriminatively trained fully connected conditional random field model for blood vessel segmentation in fundus images

JI Orlando, E Prokofyeva… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Goal: In this work, we present an extensive description and evaluation of our method for
blood vessel segmentation in fundus images based on a discriminatively trained fully …

A cross-modality learning approach for vessel segmentation in retinal images

Q Li, B Feng, LP **e, P Liang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a new supervised method for vessel segmentation in retinal images.
This method remolds the task of segmentation as a problem of cross-modality data …

Enhancement of vascular structures in 3D and 2D angiographic images

T Jerman, F Pernuš, B Likar… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A number of imaging techniques are being used for diagnosis and treatment of vascular
pathologies like stenoses, aneurysms, embolisms, malformations and remodelings, which …

Retinal vessel segmentation via a Multi-resolution Contextual Network and adversarial learning

TM Khan, SS Naqvi, A Robles-Kelly, I Razzak - Neural Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
Timely and affordable computer-aided diagnosis of retinal diseases is pivotal in precluding
blindness. Accurate retinal vessel segmentation plays an important role in disease …

R2AU‐Net: attention recurrent residual convolutional neural network for multimodal medical image segmentation

Q Zuo, S Chen, Z Wang - Security and Communication …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, semantic segmentation method based on deep learning provides advanced
performance in medical image segmentation. As one of the typical segmentation networks …

Retinal vessel segmentation with skeletal prior and contrastive loss

Y Tan, KF Yang, SX Zhao, YJ Li - IEEE Transactions on Medical …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The morphology of retinal vessels is closely associated with many kinds of ophthalmic
diseases. Although huge progress in retinal vessel segmentation has been achieved with …