Exploiting Residual Edge Information in Deep Fully Convolutional Neural Networks for Retinal Vessel Segmentation

Tariq M. Khan, Syed S. Naqvi, Muhammad Arsalan, Muhamamd Aurangzeb Khan, Haroon A. Khan, Adnan Haider

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Abstract

Accurate automatic segmentation of the retinal vessels is crucial for early detection and diagnosis of vision-threatening retinal diseases. A new supervised method using a variant of the fully convolutional neural network is pro-posed with the advantages of reduced hyper-parameters, reduced computational/memory requirements, and robust performance in capturing tiny vessel information. The fully convolutional architectures previously employed for vessel segmentation have multiple tunable hyperparameters and difficulty in end-to-end training due to their decoder structure. We resolve this problem by sharing information from the encoder for upsampling at the decoder stage, resulting in a significantly smaller number of tunable parameters and low computational overhead at the train and test stages. Moreover, the need for pre- and post-processing steps are eradicated. Consequently, the detection accuracy is significantly improved with scores of 0.9620, 0.9623, and 0.9620 on DRIVE, STARE, and CHASE-DB1 datasets respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2020 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781728169262
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2020
Event2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2020 - Virtual, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Duration: 19 Jul 202024 Jul 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Conference

Conference2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityVirtual, Glasgow
Period19/07/2024/07/20

Keywords

  • Deep fully con-volutional neural network
  • Low-level semantic information
  • Residual edge information
  • Retinal vessel segmentation
  • Semantic segmentation

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