Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 40, Issue 10, 1010001(2020)

Improved U-Net Segmentation Algorithm for the Retinal Blood Vessel Images

Daxiang Li1,2 and Zhen Zhang1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1College of Communication and Infornation Technology, Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710121, China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Ministry of Public Security, Electronic Information Field Inspection and Application Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710121, China
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    Improved U-Net retinal vessel segmentation algorithm model
    Classic Inception structure
    Inception module
    Schematic diagram of hole convolution under different expansion rates r. (a) r=1;(b) r=2;(c) r=4
    Schematic diagram of cascaded dilated convolution module
    Internal structure of attention mechanism
    DRIVE dataset (from left to right are the original color fundus image, two expert manual segmentation images, and binary mask image)
    Retina image preprocessing. (a) Original image of the DRIVE dataset; (b) pre-processed image
    Local blocky information map of retinal blood vessels. (a) Block information of the DRIVE dataset; (b) standard block information
    Segmentation of experimental results. (a) Original image preprocessing map; (b) image segmentation standard map; (c) experimental result segmentation map
    Partial blood vessel region segmentation diagram. (a) Original color fundus retinal images; (b) locally fundus retinal images; (c) local standard retinal segmentation images; (d) local retinal segmentation result images
    Comparison of evaluation indexes of different algorithms
    • Table 1. Comparison of test results of different algorithms on the DRIVE dataset

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      Table 1. Comparison of test results of different algorithms on the DRIVE dataset

      AlgorithmαSenαSpeαAccAUC
      Manual segmentation method by 2th observer0.77960.97170.94640.9466
      Method in Ref. [8]0.7420.9820.9540.862
      Method in Ref. [14]0.76480.98170.9541-
      Method in Ref. [15]0.77630.97680.94950.972
      Method in Ref. [20]0.76310.9820.95380.975
      Method in Ref. [21]0.80530.97670.95460.9771
      Method in Ref. [30]0.76550.97040.94420.9614
      Method in Ref. [31]0.81730.97330.97670.9475
      Our algorithm0.82740.98710.96430.9869
    • Table 2. Comparison of test results of different network structures on the DRIVE dataset

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      Table 2. Comparison of test results of different network structures on the DRIVE dataset

      AlgorithmαSenαSpeαAccAUC
      a0.76590.98040.95280.9765
      b0.80140.98530.95620.9812
      c0.78560.98320.95460.9784
      Our algorithm0.82740.98710.96430.9869
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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Jan. 8, 2020

    Accepted: Feb. 26, 2020

    Published Online: Apr. 28, 2020

    The Author Email: Zhang Zhen (zhang408356262@163.com)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202040.1010001

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