Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 41, Issue 4, 0410001(2021)

Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation Based on Multi-Scale Wavelet Transform Fusion

Feng Tian*, Ying Li, and Jing Wang
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  • College of Communication and Information Engineering, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710054, China
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    ing at the problem of low accuracy of blood vessel segmentation caused by the small and blurred outline of fundus retinal blood vessels, a retinal blood vessel segmentation method using wavelet transform to fuse the contour feature and detailed feature of the blood vessel under a multi-scale framework is proposed. The contrast between the blood vessel and the background is enhanced by preprocessing, the contour feature and detail feature of the blood vessel are extracted in a multi-scale framework, and image post-processing is performed. The wavelet transform is used to fuse the two feature images, the maximum value of the corresponding pixel of each scale is calculated to obtain the blood vessel detection image, and finally the Otsu method is used for segmentation. Through the test experiment of the DRIVE data set, the average accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity are 0.9582, 0.7086, and 0.9806, respectively. The method in this paper can accurately segment the contour of the blood vessel while retaining more branches of small blood vessels, and the accuracy is high.

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    Feng Tian, Ying Li, Jing Wang. Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation Based on Multi-Scale Wavelet Transform Fusion[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2021, 41(4): 0410001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Aug. 24, 2020

    Accepted: Sep. 30, 2020

    Published Online: Feb. 25, 2021

    The Author Email: Tian Feng (tianfeng@xust.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202141.0410001

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