Retinal Vessel Extraction via Assisted Multi-Channel Feature Map and U-Net

Author:

Bhatia Surbhi,Alam Shadab,Shuaib Mohammed,Hameed Alhameed Mohammed,Jeribi Fathe,Alsuwailem Razan Ibrahim

Abstract

Early detection of vessels from fundus images can effectively prevent the permanent retinal damages caused by retinopathies such as glaucoma, hyperextension, and diabetes. Concerning the red color of both retinal vessels and background and the vessel's morphological variations, the current vessel detection methodologies fail to segment thin vessels and discriminate them in the regions where permanent retinopathies mainly occur. This research aims to suggest a novel approach to take the benefit of both traditional template-matching methods with recent deep learning (DL) solutions. These two methods are combined in which the response of a Cauchy matched filter is used to replace the noisy red channel of the fundus images. Consequently, a U-shaped fully connected convolutional neural network (U-net) is employed to train end-to-end segmentation of pixels into vessel and background classes. Each preprocessed image is divided into several patches to provide enough training images and speed up the training per each instance. The DRIVE public database has been analyzed to test the proposed method, and metrics such as Accuracy, Precision, Sensitivity and Specificity have been measured for evaluation. The evaluation indicates that the average extraction accuracy of the proposed model is 0.9640 on the employed dataset.

Funder

Deanship of Scientific Research, King Faisal University

Publisher

Frontiers Media SA

Subject

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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