An Innovate Approach for Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation using Mixture of Supervised and Unsupervised Methods.
Published in IET Image Processing, 2020
Recommended citation: Sayed M.A., Saha S., Rahaman G.M.A., Ghosh T.K., Kanagasingam Y. (2020). "An Innovate Approach for Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation using Mixture of Supervised and Unsupervised Methods." IET Image Processing. https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1049/ipr2.12018
Segmentation of retinal blood vessels is a very important diagnostic procedure in ophthalmology. Segmenting blood vessels in the presence of pathological lesions is a major challenge. In this paper, we propose an innovative approach to segment the retinal blood vessel in the presence of pathology. The method combines both supervised and unsupervised approaches in the retinal imaging context. Two innovative descriptors named Local Haar Pattern and modified Speeded Up Robust Features are also proposed. Experiments are conducted on three publicly available datasets named: DRIVE, STARE, and CHASE DB1, and the proposed method has been compared against the state-of-the-art methods. The proposed method is found about 1% more accurate than the best performing supervised method and 2% more accurate than the state-of-the-art Nguyen et al.’s method.
Recommended citation: Sayed M.A., Saha S., Rahaman G.M.A., Ghosh T.K., Kanagasingam Y. “An Innovate Approach for Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation using Mixture of Supervised and Unsupervised Methods.” IET Image Processing.2020;1-11.