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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2026

SDA-SwinNet: Swin-UNet with Dense Skip and Shift-ASPP for Retinal Vessel Segmentation.

Jinghua Xiao, Ming Zhao, Rui Yang, Zhengqiang Wang, Tie Luo, Wangyu Wu

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Jinghua XiaoSchool of Computer Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, China.
Ming ZhaoSchool of Computer Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1647-1769
Rui YangSchool of Computer Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, China.
Zhengqiang WangSchool of Physics & Electronic Engineering, Hubei University of Arts and Science, Xiangyang 441053, China.
Tie LuoSchool of Cyber Science and Engineering, Wuxi University, Wuxi 214105, China.ORCID 0009-0002-3140-8634
Wangyu WuSchool of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3DR, UK.ORCID 0009-0005-8404-9489

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Wuxi University Research Start-up Fund for High-level Talents 2025r023
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Abstract

Retinal artery/vein segmentation is a prerequisite for many ophthalmic diagnostic tools. Yet, the task remains difficult: vessels form complex trees, vary widely in caliber, and often appear low-contrast at terminal branches. We propose SDA-SwinNet to handle these challenges. The network adopts Swin-UNet as its backbone and adds three modifications: a Shift-ASPP module for multi-scale context, an HF-Bridge for cross-level feature fusion, and a fractal-constrained loss with a differentiable topology surrogate. Experimental results on the DRIVE-AV and LES-AV datasets show that the proposed model achieves an overall F1-score of 73.13% on DRIVE-AV and 67.85% on LES-AV, with additional class-wise evaluations for arteries and veins. The results demonstrate that SDA-SwinNet achieves a competitive trade-off between segmentation accuracy and computational efficiency.

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Image Processing, Computer-AssistedRetinal VesselsAlgorithmsDeep LearningHumansRetinal ArteryASPPdeep learningfundus vessel segmentationmedical image analysisSwin transformer encoderSwin-UNet

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PMID42590673
PMCPMC13468993

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