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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2023

Improved fully convolutional neuron networks on small retinal vessel segmentation using local phase as attention.

Xihe Kuang, Xiayu Xu, Leyuan Fang, Ehsan Kozegar, Huachao Chen, Yue Sun, Fan Huang, Tao Tan

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Xihe KuangThe University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Xiayu XuThe Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Leyuan FangCollege of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
Ehsan KozegarFaculty of Technology and Engineering (East of Guilan), University of Guilan, Rudsar-Vajargah, Guilan, Iran.
Huachao ChenFaculty of Applied Sciences, Macao Polytechnic University, Macau, Macao SAR, China.
Yue SunElectrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Fan HuangThe University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Tao TanFaculty of Applied Sciences, Macao Polytechnic University, Macau, Macao SAR, China.
Eindhoven University of Technology · NLUniversity of Hong Kong · HKHunan University · CNMacao Polytechnic University · MOUniversity of Guilan · IRXi'an Jiaotong University · CN

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Abstract

Retinal images have been proven significant in diagnosing multiple diseases such as diabetes, glaucoma, and hypertension. Retinal vessel segmentation is crucial for the quantitative analysis of retinal images. However, current methods mainly concentrate on the segmentation performance of overall retinal vessel structures. The small vessels do not receive enough attention due to their small percentage in the full retinal images. Small retinal vessels are much more sensitive to the blood circulation system and have great significance in the early diagnosis and warning of various diseases. This paper combined two unsupervised methods, local phase congruency (LPC) and orientation scores (OS), with a deep learning network based on the U-Net as attention. And we proposed the U-Net using local phase congruency and orientation scores (UN-LPCOS), which showed a remarkable ability to identify and segment small retinal vessels. A new metric called sensitivity on a small ship (

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