Scale-space approximated convolutional neural networks for retinal vessel segmentation.

Journal: Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Retinal fundus images are widely used to diagnose retinal diseases and can potentially be used for early diagnosis and prevention of chronic vascular diseases and diabetes. While various automatic retinal vessel segmentation methods using deep learning have been proposed, they are mostly based on common CNN structures developed for other tasks such as classification.

Authors

  • Kyoung Jin Noh
    Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do 13620, South Korea.
  • Sang Jun Park
    Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seongnam, Korea.
  • Soochahn Lee
    Department of Electronic Engineering, Soonchunhyang University, Asan-si, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: soochahn.lee@gmail.com.