Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 60, Issue 6, 0610011(2023)

Multiscale Dense Attention Network for Retinal Vessel Segmentation

Liming Liang, Jie Yu, Longsong Zhou, Xin Chen, and Jian Wu*
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  • School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou 341000, Jiangxi , China
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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Nov. 30, 2021

    Accepted: Jan. 21, 2022

    Published Online: Mar. 16, 2023

    The Author Email: Wu Jian (wujian@jxust.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP213109

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