Supervised segmentation of vasculature in retinal images using neural networks

Chen Ding, Yong Xia, Ying Li

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Abstract

This paper proposes a neural network based supervised segmentation algorithm for retinal vessel delineation. The histogram of each training image patch and its optimal threshold acquired through iteratively comparing the binaryzation result to the manual segmentation are applied to a BP neural network to establish the correspondence between the intensity distribution and optimal segmentation parameter. Finally, each test image can be segmented by using a number of local thresholds that are predicted by the trained the neural network according the histograms of image patches. The propose algorithm has been evaluated on the DRIVE database that contains forty retinal images with manually segmented vessel trees. Our results show that the proposed algorithm can effective segment the vasculature in retinal images.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE International Conference on Orange Technologies, ICOT 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages49-52
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781479962846
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 Nov 2014
Event2014 IEEE International Conference on Orange Technologies, ICOT 2014 - Xi'an, China
Duration: 20 Sep 201423 Sep 2014

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Orange Technologies, ICOT 2014

Conference

Conference2014 IEEE International Conference on Orange Technologies, ICOT 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXi'an
Period20/09/1423/09/14

Keywords

  • Image segmentation
  • neural network
  • retinal images
  • threshold

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