Enhancing Vessel Segment Extraction in Retinal Fundus Images Using Retinal Image Analysis and Six Sigma Process Capability Index

Author:

Badawi Sufian A.1ORCID,Takruri Maen1ORCID,ElBadawi Isam2ORCID,Chaudhry Imran Ali2ORCID,Mahar Nasr Ullah3ORCID,Nileshwar Ajay Kamath45ORCID,Mosalam Emad6ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Center of Information, Communication and Networking Education and Innovation (ICONET), American University of Ras Al Khaimah, Ras Al Khaimah 72603, United Arab Emirates

2. Industrial Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Ha’il, Ha’il 81481, Saudi Arabia

3. Computer Science Department, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan 60800, Pakistan

4. Department of Ophthalmology, RAK Medical and Health Sciences University, Ras Al Khaimah 11172, United Arab Emirates

5. Saqr Hospital, Ministry of Health and Prevention, Ras Al Khaimah P.O. Box 5450, United Arab Emirates

6. Dr. Emad Mussalam Eye Clinic, Ras Al Khaimah P.O. Box 5450, United Arab Emirates

Abstract

Retinal vessel segmentation, skeletonization, and the generation of vessel segments are considered significant steps in any automated system for measuring the vessel biomarkers of several disease diagnoses. Most of the current tortuosity quantification methods rely on precise vascular segmentation and skeletonization of the retinal vessels. Additionally, the existence of a reference dataset for accurate vessel segment images is an essential need for implementing deep learning solutions and an automated system for measuring the vessel biomarkers of several disease diagnoses, especially for optimized quantification of vessel tortuosity or accurate measurement of AV-nicking. This study aimed to present an improved method for skeletonizing and extracting the retinal vessel segments from the 504 images in the AV classification dataset. The study utilized the Six Sigma process capability index, sigma level, and yield to measure the vessels’ tortuosity calculation improvement before and after optimizing the extracted vessels. As a result, the study showed that the sigma level for the vessel segment optimization improved from 2.7 to 4.39, the confirming yield improved from 88 percent to 99.77 percent, and the optimized vessel segments of the AV classification dataset retinal images are available in monochrome and colored formats.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

General Mathematics,Engineering (miscellaneous),Computer Science (miscellaneous)

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