Detection of Retinal Blood Vessels Based on Morphological Analysis with Multiscale Structure Elements and SVM Classification

Automatic Segmentation of Retinal Blood Vessels Based on Improved Multiscale Line Detection

The appearance of retinal blood vessels is an important diagnostic indicator of serious disease, such as hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and stroke. Automatic segmentation of the retinal vasculature is a primary step towards automatic assessment of the retinal blood vessel features. This paper presents an automated method for the enhancement and segmentation of blood vessels in ...

Classification of polarimetric radar images based on SVM and BGSA

Classification of land cover is one of the most important applications of radar polarimetry images. The purpose of image classification is to classify image pixels into different classes based on vector properties of the extractor. Radar imaging systems provide useful information about ground cover by using a wide range of electromagnetic waves to image the Earthchr('39')s surface. The purpose ...

Multiscale Filtering and Neural Network Classification for Segmentation and Analysis of Retinal Vessels

The blood vessel segmentation method described in this paper aims at minimizing the false positive rate, while maintaining high accuracy. Though developed for color retinal images, it can be applied to other tree-like vascular images as well. A computer vision approach is devised that mimics the image reading by expert people, based on a two stage process, perception and interpretation. The fir...

Improvement of retinal blood vessel detection using morphological component analysis

Detection and quantitative measurement of variations in the retinal blood vessels can help diagnose several diseases including diabetic retinopathy. Intrinsic characteristics of abnormal retinal images make blood vessel detection difficult. The major problem with traditional vessel segmentation algorithms is producing false positive vessels in the presence of diabetic retinopathy lesions. To ov...

Direction-Based Segmentation of Retinal Blood Vessels