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Retinal Mosaicking with Vascular Bifurcations Detected on Vessel Mask by a Convolutional Network
Mosaicking of retinal images is potentially useful for ophthalmologists and computer-aided diagnostic schemes. Vascular bifurcations can be used as features for matching and stitching of retinal images. A fully convolutional network model is employed to segment vascular structures in retinal images...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199554/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32377330 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/7156408 |
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author | Feng, Xiuxia Cai, Guangwei Gou, Xiaofang Yun, Zhaoqiang Wang, Wenhui Yang, Wei |
author_facet | Feng, Xiuxia Cai, Guangwei Gou, Xiaofang Yun, Zhaoqiang Wang, Wenhui Yang, Wei |
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description | Mosaicking of retinal images is potentially useful for ophthalmologists and computer-aided diagnostic schemes. Vascular bifurcations can be used as features for matching and stitching of retinal images. A fully convolutional network model is employed to segment vascular structures in retinal images to detect vascular bifurcations. Then, bifurcations are extracted as feature points on the vascular mask by a robust and efficient approach. Transformation parameters for stitching can be estimated from the correspondence of vascular bifurcations. The proposed feature detection and mosaic method is evaluated on retinal images of 14 different eyes, 62 retinal images. The proposed method achieves a considerably higher average recall rate of matching for paired images compared with speeded-up robust features and scale-invariant feature transform. The running time of our method was also lower than other methods. Results produced by the proposed method superior to that of AutoStitch, photomerge function in Photoshop cs6 and ICE, demonstrate that accurate matching of detected vascular bifurcations could lead to high-quality mosaic of retinal images. |
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spelling | pubmed-71995542020-05-06 Retinal Mosaicking with Vascular Bifurcations Detected on Vessel Mask by a Convolutional Network Feng, Xiuxia Cai, Guangwei Gou, Xiaofang Yun, Zhaoqiang Wang, Wenhui Yang, Wei J Healthc Eng Research Article Mosaicking of retinal images is potentially useful for ophthalmologists and computer-aided diagnostic schemes. Vascular bifurcations can be used as features for matching and stitching of retinal images. A fully convolutional network model is employed to segment vascular structures in retinal images to detect vascular bifurcations. Then, bifurcations are extracted as feature points on the vascular mask by a robust and efficient approach. Transformation parameters for stitching can be estimated from the correspondence of vascular bifurcations. The proposed feature detection and mosaic method is evaluated on retinal images of 14 different eyes, 62 retinal images. The proposed method achieves a considerably higher average recall rate of matching for paired images compared with speeded-up robust features and scale-invariant feature transform. The running time of our method was also lower than other methods. Results produced by the proposed method superior to that of AutoStitch, photomerge function in Photoshop cs6 and ICE, demonstrate that accurate matching of detected vascular bifurcations could lead to high-quality mosaic of retinal images. Hindawi 2020-01-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7199554/ /pubmed/32377330 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/7156408 Text en Copyright © 2020 Xiuxia Feng et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Feng, Xiuxia Cai, Guangwei Gou, Xiaofang Yun, Zhaoqiang Wang, Wenhui Yang, Wei Retinal Mosaicking with Vascular Bifurcations Detected on Vessel Mask by a Convolutional Network |
title | Retinal Mosaicking with Vascular Bifurcations Detected on Vessel Mask by a Convolutional Network |
title_full | Retinal Mosaicking with Vascular Bifurcations Detected on Vessel Mask by a Convolutional Network |
title_fullStr | Retinal Mosaicking with Vascular Bifurcations Detected on Vessel Mask by a Convolutional Network |
title_full_unstemmed | Retinal Mosaicking with Vascular Bifurcations Detected on Vessel Mask by a Convolutional Network |
title_short | Retinal Mosaicking with Vascular Bifurcations Detected on Vessel Mask by a Convolutional Network |
title_sort | retinal mosaicking with vascular bifurcations detected on vessel mask by a convolutional network |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199554/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32377330 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/7156408 |
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