BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Accurate extraction of retinal vascular components is vital in diagnosing and treating retinal diseases. Achieving precise segmentation of retinal blood vessels is challenging due to their complex structure and overlapping v...
PURPOSE: The objective of this study is to estimate the area of the Foveal Avascular Zone (FAZ) from B-scan OCT images using machine learning algorithms.
Medical & biological engineering & computing
Dec 13, 2024
Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a novel non-invasive retinal vessel imaging technique that can display high-resolution 3D vessel structures. The quantitative analysis of retinal vessel morphology plays an important role in the auto...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Dec 5, 2024
Accurate fovea localization is essential for analyzing retinal diseases to prevent irreversible vision loss. While current deep learning-based methods outperform traditional ones, they still face challenges such as the lack of local anatomical landma...
BACKGROUND/AIMS: To design a deep learning (DL) model for the detection of glaucoma progression with a longitudinal series of macular optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) images.
The recent rise of artificial intelligence represents a revolutionary way of improving current medical practices, including cardiovascular (CV) assessment scores. Retinal vascular alterations may reflect systemic processes such as the presence of CV ...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Nov 6, 2024
Automated retinal vessel segmentation is crucial for computer-aided clinical diagnosis and retinopathy screening. However, deep learning faces challenges in extracting complex intertwined structures and subtle small vessels from densely vascularized ...
Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association
Oct 10, 2024
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to investigate whether a deep learning approach incorporating retinal blood vessels can effectively identify ischemic stroke patients with a high burden of White Matter Hyperintensities (WMH) using Nuclear Magnetic Resonanc...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Sep 28, 2024
SNNs are gaining popularity in AI research as a low-power alternative in deep learning due to their sparse properties and biological interpretability. Using SNNs for dense prediction tasks is becoming an important research area. In this paper, we fir...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Sep 5, 2024
This paper introduces an effective and efficient framework for retinal vessel segmentation. First, we design a Transformer-CNN hybrid model in which a Transformer module is inserted inside the U-Net to capture long-range interactions. Second, we desi...
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