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ArticleBioengineering (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Retinal Vascular Image Segmentation Using Improved UNet Based on Residual Module.

Ko-Wei Huang, Yao-Ren Yang, Zih-Hao Huang, Yi-Yang Liu, Shih-Hsiung Lee

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Article in Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Ko-Wei HuangDepartment of Electrical Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 80778, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0003-0853-3584
Yao-Ren YangDepartment of Electrical Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 80778, Taiwan.
Zih-Hao HuangDepartment of Electrical Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 80778, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-9422-271X
Yi-Yang LiuDepartment of Electrical Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 80778, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-5143-9505
Shih-Hsiung LeeDepartment of Intelligent Commerce, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 82444, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-7395-556X

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National Science and Technology Council of Taiwan 111-2221-E-992 -070 -MY2
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Abstract

In recent years, deep learning technology for clinical diagnosis has progressed considerably, and the value of medical imaging continues to increase. In the past, clinicians evaluated medical images according to their individual expertise. In contrast, the application of artificial intelligence technology for automatic analysis and diagnostic assistance to support clinicians in evaluating medical information more efficiently has become an important trend. In this study, we propose a machine learning architecture designed to segment images of retinal blood vessels based on an improved U-Net neural network model. The proposed model incorporates a residual module to extract features more effectively, and includes a full-scale skip connection to combine low level details with high-level features at different scales. The results of an experimental evaluation show that the model was able to segment images of retinal vessels accurately. The proposed method also outperformed several existing models on the benchmark datasets DRIVE and ROSE, including U-Net, ResUNet, U-Net3+, ResUNet++, and CaraNet.

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deep learningmedical imageneural networkretinal vessel segmentation

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PMCPMC10295602

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