Bayesian method with spatial constraint for retinal vessel segmentation

DOI10.1155/2013/401413MaRDI QIDQ2262165zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Zhiyong Xiao, Mouloud Adel, Salah Bourennane

Publication date 16 March 2015

Published in Computational \& Mathematical Methods in Medicine (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/401413

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General biostatistics (92B15) Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55)

Review text

Summary: A Bayesian method with spatial constraint is proposed for vessel segmentation in retinal images. The proposed model makes the assumption that the posterior probability of each pixel is dependent on posterior probabilities of their neighboring pixels. An energy function is defined for the proposed model. By applying the modified level set approach to minimize the proposed energy function, we can identify blood vessels in the retinal image. Evaluation of the developed method is done on real retinal images which are from the DRIVE database and the STARE database. The performance is analyzed and compared to other published methods using a number of measures which include accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity. The proposed approach is proved to be effective on these two databases. The average accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity on the DRIVE database are 0.9529, 0.7513, and 0.9792, respectively, and for the STARE database 0.9476, 0.7147, and 0.9735, respectively. The performance is better than that of other vessel segmentation methods.

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