Boosting sensitivity of a retinal vessel segmentation algorithm

• Published in: Pattern analysis and applications : PAA Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 583 - 599
• Main Authors: Khan, Mohammad A. U., Khan, Tariq M., Soomro, Toufique Ahmed, Mir, Nighat, Gao, Junbin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Springer London 01.05.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Algorithms; Blood vessels; Change detection; Computer Science; Curvature; Hypertension; Image contrast; Image reconstruction; Image segmentation; Pattern Recognition; Retinal images; Seeds; Sensitivity; Theoretical Advances; Second-order Gaussian derivatives; Oriented diffusion; Vessels segmentation; Image enhancement

The correlation between retinal vessel structural changes and the progression of diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular problems has been the subject of several large-scale clinical studies. However, detecting structural changes in retinal vessels in a sufficiently fast and accu...