Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 40, Issue 4, 0410002(2020)

Retinal Vessel Segmentation Method Based on Two-Stream Networks

Xiaowen Lü, Feng Shao*, Yiming Xiong, and Weishan Yang
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  • Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, China
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    The analysis of the morphological characteristics of retinal vessels is helpful in diagnosing retinal diseases. To segment retinal vessels more accurately, this paper proposes a new method based on a two-stream network. First, the whole vessel and small vessels are segmented using a convolutional neural network with an encoder-decoder structure. Subsequently, the two prediction maps are fused after the artifacts and noises are removed from the fusion image. The final vascular segmentation is then obtained. Because of the separate segmentation of small vessels, the proposed method can more effectively segment small vessel pixels that make it difficult to recognize the edges and low-contrast areas of retinal vessels. Experimental results show that the sensitivity of the proposed method on DRIVE, STARE, and CHASE_DB1 datasets is 0.8062, 0.8308, and 0.8135, respectively. The performance of the proposed method is better than that of other methods.

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    Xiaowen Lü, Feng Shao, Yiming Xiong, Weishan Yang. Retinal Vessel Segmentation Method Based on Two-Stream Networks[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2020, 40(4): 0410002

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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Jul. 8, 2019

    Accepted: Nov. 6, 2019

    Published Online: Feb. 11, 2020

    The Author Email: Shao Feng (shaofeng@nbu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202040.0410002

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