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 vessel segmentation for fundus image analysis

Q Qin, Y Chen - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2024 - Elsevier
The fundus is the only region where arteries, veins and capillaries can be directly observed.
Morphological changes of retinal vessels in the fundus are signals for the appearance 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 …

Bridge-Net: Context-involved U-net with patch-based loss weight mapping for retinal blood vessel segmentation

Y Zhang, M He, Z Chen, K Hu, X Li, X Gao - Expert Systems with …, 2022 - Elsevier
Retinal blood vessel segmentation in fundus images plays an important role in the early
diagnosis and treatment of retinal diseases. In recent years, the segmentation methods …

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 …

Hierarchical retinal blood vessel segmentation based on feature and ensemble learning

S Wang, Y Yin, G Cao, B Wei, Y Zheng, G Yang - Neurocomputing, 2015 - Elsevier
Segmentation of retinal blood vessels is of substantial clinical importance for diagnoses of
many diseases, such as diabetic retinopathy, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. In …

Automated vessel segmentation using infinite perimeter active contour model with hybrid region information with application to retinal images

Y Zhao, L Rada, K Chen, SP Harding… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated detection of blood vessel structures is becoming of crucial interest for better
management of vascular disease. In this paper, we propose a new infinite active contour …

A new deep learning method for blood vessel segmentation in retinal images based on convolutional kernels and modified U-Net model

ME Gegundez-Arias, D Marin-Santos… - Computer Methods and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Objective: Automatic monitoring of retinal blood vessels proves
very useful for the clinical assessment of ocular vascular anomalies or retinopathies. This …

Retinal vessel segmentation in colour fundus images using extreme learning machine

C Zhu, B Zou, R Zhao, J Cui, X Duan, Z Chen… - … Medical Imaging and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Attributes of the retinal vessel play important role in systemic conditions and ophthalmic
diagnosis. In this paper, a supervised method based on Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) is …

Blood vessel segmentation from fundus image by a cascade classification framework

X Wang, X Jiang, J Ren - Pattern Recognition, 2019 - Elsevier
Accurate segmentation of retinal vessel from fundus image is a prerequisite for the computer-
aided diagnosis of ophthalmology diseases. In this paper, we propose a novel and robust …