학술논문

Retinal vessel width measurements based on a graph-theoretic method
Document Type
Conference
Source
2011 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, 2011 IEEE International Symposium on. :641-644 Mar, 2011
Subject
Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Signal Processing and Analysis
Robotics and Control Systems
Image segmentation
Pixel
Observers
Biomedical imaging
Blood vessels
Retinal vessels
retinal photography
graph-based segmentation
vessel width measurement
Language
ISSN
1945-7928
1945-8452
Abstract
A reliable and accurate method to measure the width of retinal blood vessel in fundus photography is proposed in this paper. Our approach is based on a graph-theoretic algorithm. The two boundaries of the same blood vessel are segmented simultaneously by converting the two-boundary segmentation problem into a two-slice, three-dimension surface segmentation problem, which is further converted into the problem of computing a minimum closed set in a node-weighted graph. An initial segmentation is generated from a vessel probability image. Two datasets from the REVIEW database were used to assess the performance of proposed method. This algorithm is robust and is able to produce accurate measurements.