27 September 2019 Retinal vessel segmentation using dense U-net with multiscale inputs
Kejuan Yue, Beiji Zou, Zailiang Chen, Qing Liu
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Abstract

A color fundus image is an image of the inner wall of the eyeball taken with a fundus camera. Doctors can observe retinal vessel changes in the image, and these changes can be used to diagnose many serious diseases such as atherosclerosis, glaucoma, and age-related macular degeneration. Automated segmentation of retinal vessels can facilitate more efficient diagnosis of these diseases. We propose an improved U-net architecture to segment retinal vessels. Multiscale input layer and dense block are introduced into the conventional U-net, so that the network can make use of richer spatial context information. The proposed method is evaluated on the public dataset DRIVE, achieving 0.8199 in sensitivity and 0.9561 in accuracy. Especially for thin blood vessels, which are difficult to detect because of their low contrast with the background pixels, the segmentation results have been improved.

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Kejuan Yue, Beiji Zou, Zailiang Chen, and Qing Liu "Retinal vessel segmentation using dense U-net with multiscale inputs," Journal of Medical Imaging 6(3), 034004 (27 September 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.6.3.034004
Received: 13 April 2019; Accepted: 30 August 2019; Published: 27 September 2019
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KEYWORDS
Image segmentation

Selenium

Blood vessels

Image enhancement

Computer programming

Binary data

Image filtering

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