scholarly journals Image Segmentation Methods for Detecting Blood Vessels in Angiography

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert C. S. Chung
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Blood Vessels ◽  
Segmentation Methods

scholarly journals Extracting Retinal Anatomy and Pathological Structure Using Multiscale Segmentation

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
pp. 3669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geng ◽  
Che ◽  
Xiao ◽  
Liu
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Medical Imaging ◽  
Blood Vessels ◽  
General Applicability ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Large Databases ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Fundus Photographs ◽  
Optic Discs ◽  
Pathological Structure

Fundus image segmentation technology has always been an important tool in the medical imaging field. Recent studies have validated that deep learning techniques can effectively segment retinal anatomy and determine pathological structure in retinal fundus photographs. However, several groups of image segmentation methods used in medical imaging only provide a single retinopathic feature (e.g., roth spots and exudates). In this paper, we propose a more accurate and clinically oriented framework for the segmentation of fundus images from end-to-end input. We design a four-path multiscale input network structure that learns network features and finds overall characteristics via our network. Our network’s structure is not limited by segmentation of single retinopathic features. Our method is suitable for exudates, roth spots, blood vessels, and optic discs segmentation. The structure has general applicability to many fundus models; therefore, we use our own dataset for training. In cooperation with hospitals and board-certified ophthalmologists, the proposed framework is validated on retinal images from large databases and can improve diagnostic performance compared to state-of-the-art methods that use smaller databases for training. The proposed framework detects blood vessels with an accuracy of 0.927, which is comparable to exudate accuracy (0.939) and roth spot accuracy (0.904), providing ophthalmologists with a practical diagnostic and a robust analytical tool.

scholarly journals PyConvU-Net: a lightweight and multiscale network for biomedical image segmentation

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Changyong Li ◽  
Yongxian Fan ◽  
Xiaodong Cai
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Actual Situation ◽  
Controlled Experiments ◽  
Biomedical Image ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Art Performance

Abstract Background With the development of deep learning (DL), more and more methods based on deep learning are proposed and achieve state-of-the-art performance in biomedical image segmentation. However, these methods are usually complex and require the support of powerful computing resources. According to the actual situation, it is impractical that we use huge computing resources in clinical situations. Thus, it is significant to develop accurate DL based biomedical image segmentation methods which depend on resources-constraint computing. Results A lightweight and multiscale network called PyConvU-Net is proposed to potentially work with low-resources computing. Through strictly controlled experiments, PyConvU-Net predictions have a good performance on three biomedical image segmentation tasks with the fewest parameters. Conclusions Our experimental results preliminarily demonstrate the potential of proposed PyConvU-Net in biomedical image segmentation with resources-constraint computing.

scholarly journals A NOVEL IMAGE SEGMENTATION APPROACH BASED ON NEUTROSOPHIC SET AND IMPROVED FUZZY C-MEANS ALGORITHM

2011 ◽  
Vol 07 (01) ◽  
pp. 155-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. D. CHENG ◽  
YANHUI GUO ◽  
YINGTAO ZHANG
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Neutrosophic Set ◽  
Convergence Criterion ◽  
Complex Objects ◽  
Fuzzy C Means ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Segmentation Algorithms ◽  
Segmentation Approach ◽  
Fuzzy C Means Algorithm

Image segmentation is an important component in image processing, pattern recognition and computer vision. Many segmentation algorithms have been proposed. However, segmentation methods for both noisy and noise-free images have not been studied in much detail. Neutrosophic set (NS), a part of neutrosophy theory, studies the origin, nature, and scope of neutralities, as well as their interaction with different ideational spectra. However, neutrosophic set needs to be specified and clarified from a technical point of view for a given application or field to demonstrate its usefulness. In this paper, we apply neutrosophic set and define some operations. Neutrosphic set is integrated with an improved fuzzy c-means method and employed for image segmentation. A new operation, α-mean operation, is proposed to reduce the set indeterminacy. An improved fuzzy c-means (IFCM) is proposed based on neutrosophic set. The computation of membership and the convergence criterion of clustering are redefined accordingly. We have conducted experiments on a variety of images. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach can segment images accurately and effectively. Especially, it can segment the clean images and the images having different gray levels and complex objects, which is the most difficult task for image segmentation.

A Survey on Solar Image Segmentation Techniques

2014 ◽  
Vol 945-949 ◽  
pp. 1899-1902
Author(s):  
Yuan Yuan Fan ◽  
Wei Jiang Li ◽  
Feng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Image Retrieval ◽  
Fundamental Issue ◽  
Solar Image ◽  
Segmentation Methods

Image segmentation is one of the basic problems of image processing, also is the first essential and fundamental issue in the solar image analysis and pattern recognition. This paper summarizes systematically on the image segmentation techniques in the solar image retrieval and the recent applications of image segmentation. Then the merits and demerits of each method are discussed in this paper, in this way we can combine some methods for image segmentation to reach the better effects in astronomy. Finally, according to the characteristics of the solar image itself, the more appropriate image segmentation methods are summed up, and some remarks on the prospects and development of image segmentation are presented.

Image Segmentation Using Rough Set Theory

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Payel Roy ◽  
Srijan Goswami ◽  
Sayan Chakraborty ◽  
Ahmad Taher Azar ◽  
Nilanjan Dey
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Set Theory ◽  
Rough Set ◽  
Rough Set Theory ◽  
Gray Level ◽  
Rule Generation ◽  
Local Minima ◽  
Fuzzy Correlation ◽  
Segmentation Methods

In the domain of image processing, image segmentation has become one of the key application that is involved in most of the image based operations. Image segmentation refers to the process of breaking or partitioning any image. Although, like several image processing operations, image segmentation also faces some problems and issues when segmenting process becomes much more complicated. Previously lot of work has proved that Rough-set theory can be a useful method to overcome such complications during image segmentation. The Rough-set theory helps in very fast convergence and in avoiding local minima problem, thereby enhancing the performance of the EM, better result can be achieved. During rough-set-theoretic rule generation, each band is individualized by using the fuzzy-correlation-based gray-level thresholding. Therefore, use of Rough-set in image segmentation can be very useful. In this paper, a summary of all previous Rough-set based image segmentation methods are described in detail and also categorized accordingly. Rough-set based image segmentation provides a stable and better framework for image segmentation.

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