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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

A Semantically Flexible Feature Fusion Network for Retinal Vessel Segmentation

Authors : Tariq M. Khan, Antonio Robles-Kelly, Syed S. Naqvi

Published in: Neural Information Processing

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Abstract

The automatic detection of retinal blood vessels by computer aided techniques plays an important role in the diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and macular degeneration. In this paper we present a semantically flexible feature fusion network that employs residual skip connections between adjacent neurons to improve retinal vessel detection. This yields a method that can be trained employing residual learning. To illustrate the utility of our method for retinal blood vessel detection, we show results on two publicly available data sets, i.e. DRIVE and STARE. In our experimental evaluation we include widely used evaluation metrics and compare our results with those yielded by alternatives elsewhere in the literature. In our experiments, our method is quite competitive, delivering a margin of sensitivity and accuracy improvement as compared to the alternatives under consideration.

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Metadata
Title
A Semantically Flexible Feature Fusion Network for Retinal Vessel Segmentation
Authors
Tariq M. Khan
Antonio Robles-Kelly
Syed S. Naqvi
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Neural Information Processing

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-63819-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-63820-7

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63820-7_18

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