1 简介
. Extraction of blood vessels in retinal images is an important step for computer-aided diagnosis of ophthalmic pathologies. We propose an approach for blood vessel tracking and diameter estimation. We hypothesize that the curvature and the diameter of blood vessels are Gaussian processes (GPs). Local Radon transform, which is robust against noise, is subsequently used to compute the features and train the GPs. By learning the kernelized covariance matrix from training data, vessel direction and its diameter are estimated. In order to detect bifurcations, multiple GPs are used and the difference between their corresponding predicted directions is quantified. The combination of Radon features and GP results in a good performance in the presence of noise.
The proposed method successfully deals with typically difficult cases such as bifurcations and central arterial reflex, and also tracks thin vessels with high accuracy. Experiments are conducted on the publicly available DRIVE, STARE, CHASEDB1, and high-resolution fundus databases evaluating sensitivity, specificity, and Matthew’s correlation coefficient (MCC). Experimental results on these datasets show that the proposed method reaches an average sensitivity of 75.67%, specificity of 97.46%, and MCC of 72.18% which is comparable to the
state-of-the-art.
2 部分代码
function [output] = GP_input_dir(input_image, seed_point_position, vessel_radius,previous_direction)% extract data from image for vessel tracking using radon transformzoom = 4;[a b] = size(input_image);[X,Y] = meshgrid(1:b,1:a);i=1;[grid_xx,grid_yy] = meshgrid(seed_point_position(1)-vessel_radius(i):1/zoom:seed_point_position(1)+vessel_radius(i) , ...seed_point_position(2)-vessel_radius(i):1/zoom:seed_point_position(2)+vessel_radius(i));square_mask = uint8(interp2(X,Y,input_image,grid_xx,grid_yy,'cubic'));square_mask = double(square_mask);min_mask = min(square_mask(:))/255;max_mask = max(square_mask(:))/255;square_mask = double(imadjust(uint8(square_mask),[min_mask max_mask], [0 1]));Mask_Size = size(square_mask);Mask_center = (Mask_Size(1)+1)/2;[yy,xx] = ndgrid( (1:Mask_Size(1)),(1:Mask_Size(2)));circle_mask= double((xx-Mask_center).^2+(yy-Mask_center).^2 <= (zoom*vessel_radius(i))^2);image_circle_mask = square_mask.*circle_mask;sigma_2= -Mask_center^2/log(.15);[x,y] = meshgrid(-Mask_center+1:1:Mask_center-1);z= exp(-((x).^2)/sigma_2 - ((y).^2)/sigma_2);circle_mask_gaussian= z.*image_circle_mask;rotated_circle_mask = imrotate(circle_mask_gaussian,-previous_direction);[a b]= size(rotated_circle_mask);seed_point_center = (a+1)/2;mask_radius = seed_point_center - 1;[XX,YY] = meshgrid(-mask_radius:mask_radius);integral_radius = [0: mask_radius/100:mask_radius];theta_int = [89:-1:-89];grid_x(theta_int+90,:) = cosd(theta_int)'*integral_radius;grid_y(theta_int+90,:) = sind(theta_int)'*integral_radius;ZI = interp2(XX,YY,rotated_circle_mask,grid_x,grid_y,'cubic');integral_179 = sum(ZI');integral_179 = integral_179 - min(integral_179);integral_179_normal = integral_179/max(integral_179);output((i-1)*179+1:i*179) = integral_179(179:-1:1)/max(integral_179);end
3 仿真结果

4 参考文献
[1]马歌. 基于Canny算子和Radon变换的证件图像倾斜校正[J]. 中国新技术新产品, 2014(15):2.
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该文提出了一种用于视网膜图像中血管追踪及直径估计的方法。通过假设血管的曲率和直径为高斯过程,结合局部Radon变换计算特征并训练模型。在检测分叉点时使用多个高斯过程,并量化它们预测方向的差异。实验在DRIVE、STARE、CHASEDB1和高分辨率眼底数据库上进行,平均敏感性达到75.67%,特异性97.46%,Matthew's相关系数72.18%,与现有最佳方法相当。
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