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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2021

A Hybrid Method to Enhance Thick and Thin Vessels for Blood Vessel Segmentation.

Sonali Dash, Sahil Verma, Kavita, Md Sameeruddin Khan, Marcin Wozniak, Jana Shafi, Muhammad Fazal Ijaz

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Sonali DashDepartment of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Raghu Institute of Technology (A), Visakhapatnam 531162, Andhra Pradesh, India.ORCID 0000-0002-6153-2655
Sahil VermaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Chandigarh University, Mohali 140413, India.ORCID 0000-0003-3136-4029
KavitaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Chandigarh University, Mohali 140413, India.ORCID 0000-0001-5422-1659
Md Sameeruddin KhanDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Chandigarh University, Mohali 140413, India.
Marcin WozniakFaculty of Applied Mathematics, Silesian University of Technology, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-9073-5347
Jana ShafiDepartment of Computer Science, College of Arts and Science, Prince Sattam bin Abdul Aziz University, Wadi Ad-Dwasir 11991, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-6859-670X
Muhammad Fazal IjazDepartment of Intelligent Mechatronics Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-5206-272X

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Abstract

Retinal blood vessels have been presented to contribute confirmation with regard to tortuosity, branching angles, or change in diameter as a result of ophthalmic disease. Although many enhancement filters are extensively utilized, the Jerman filter responds quite effectively at vessels, edges, and bifurcations and improves the visualization of structures. In contrast, curvelet transform is specifically designed to associate scale with orientation and can be used to recover from noisy data by curvelet shrinkage. This paper describes a method to improve the performance of curvelet transform further. A distinctive fusion of curvelet transform and the Jerman filter is presented for retinal blood vessel segmentation. Mean-C thresholding is employed for the segmentation purpose. The suggested method achieves average accuracies of 0.9600 and 0.9559 for DRIVE and CHASE_DB1, respectively. Simulation results establish a better performance and faster implementation of the suggested scheme in comparison with similar approaches seen in the literature.

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blood vessel segmentationcurvelet transformJerman filtermean-C thresholding

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PMCPMC8621384

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