OBJECTIVES: To demonstrate the feasibility of a deep learning-based vascular segmentation tool for UWFA and evaluate its ability to automatically identify quality-optimized phase-specific images.
Computational and mathematical methods in medicine
Aug 9, 2021
METHODS: A new SERR-U-Net framework for retinal vessel segmentation is proposed, which leverages technologies including Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE), residual module, and recurrent block. First, the convolution layers of encoder and decoder are modifi...
Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.)
Jul 19, 2021
Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) offers a noninvasive label-free solution for imaging retinal vasculatures at the capillary level resolution. In principle, improved resolution implies a better chance to reveal subtle microvascular dist...
PURPOSE: The segmentation results of retinal blood vessels have a significant impact on the automatic diagnosis of various ophthalmic diseases. In order to further improve the segmentation accuracy of retinal vessels, we propose an improved algorithm...
Accurate segmentation of medical images plays an essential role in their analysis and has a wide range of research and application values in fields of practice such as medical research, disease diagnosis, disease analysis, and auxiliary surgery. In r...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jun 4, 2021
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Automatic retinal vessel segmentation (RVS) in fundus images is expected to be a vital step in the early image diagnosis of ophthalmologic diseases. However, it is a challenging task to detect the retinal vessel accurately ...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Jun 3, 2021
Retinal vessel segmentation is a critical procedure towards the accurate visualization, diagnosis, early treatment, and surgery planning of ocular diseases. Recent deep learning-based approaches have achieved impressive performance in retinal vessel ...
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a disease resulting from diabetes complications, causing non-reversible damage to retina blood vessels. DR is a leading cause of blindness if not detected early. The currently available DR treatments are limited to stoppi...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Apr 30, 2021
PURPOSE: With the recent development of deep learning technologies, various neural networks have been proposed for fundus retinal vessel segmentation. Among them, the U-Net is regarded as one of the most successful architectures. In this work, we sta...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Apr 8, 2021
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Automatic monitoring of retinal blood vessels proves very useful for the clinical assessment of ocular vascular anomalies or retinopathies. This paper presents an efficient and accurate deep learning-based method for vessel ...
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