Retina blood vessels segmentation by combining deep learning networks

Autor: Bachiri, Mohamed Elssaleh, Rahmoune, Adel, Rahmoune, Fayçal
Zdroj: International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology; 2023, Vol. 43 Issue: 1 p38-59, 22p
Abstrakt: In this paper, we propose two deep learning architectures for the segmentation and detection of the vascular networks of blood vessels in fundus images. First, we combined VGG16 with U-net, then, we used Resnet 34 in combination with U-net. Both architectures employ an encoding and a decoding path. In this paper, we used the DRIVE and STARE databases. After applying VGG 16+U-net on the DRIVE database, we obtained the accuracy value of 0.96955, 0.79929 sensitivity, 0.98624 specificity, 0.9805 recall, and 0.9833 F1-score. We applied VGG 16+U-net on STARE database and we got 0.95259 accuracy, 0.89996 sensitivity, 0.95530 specificity, 0.9933 recall, and 0.9742 F1-score. Concerning Resnet 34 + U-net, we got the value of 0.9692 accuracy, 0.7859 sensitivity, 0.9870 specificity, 0.9794 recall, and 0.9832 F1-score after applying on DRIVE database. Moreover, we got 0.9363 accuracy, 0.9335 sensitivity, 0.9246 specificity, 0.9961 recall, and 0.9649 F1-score after we applied Resnet 34+U-net on STARE.
Databáze: Supplemental Index