Fast detection of the main anatomical structures in digital retinal images based on intra- and inter-structure relational knowledge
| Autor: | Enrique J. Carmona, José María Molina-Casado, Julian Garcia-Feijoo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Relation (database)
Optic Disk Health Informatics 02 engineering and technology Mathematical morphology Retina 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging Image (mathematics) Reduction (complexity) Set (abstract data type) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Image Interpretation Computer-Assisted 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering medicine Humans Computer vision Mathematics business.industry Template matching Retinal Vessels Computer Science Applications medicine.anatomical_structure 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing Artificial intelligence Tuple business Software Algorithms Optic disc |
| Zdroj: | Computer methods and programs in biomedicine. 149 |
| ISSN: | 1872-7565 |
| Popis: | Background and objective: The anatomical structure detection in retinal images is an open problem. However, most of the works in the related literature are oriented to the detection of each structure individually or assume the previous detection of a structure which is used as a reference. The objective of this paper is to obtain simultaneous detection of the main retinal structures (optic disc, macula, network of vessels and vascular bundle) in a fast and robust way. Methods: We propose a new methodology oriented to accomplish the mentioned objective. It consists of two stages. In an initial stage, a set of operators is applied to the retinal image. Each operator uses intra-structure relational knowledge in order to produce a set of candidate blobs that belongs to the desired structure. In a second stage, a set of tuples is created, each of which contains a different combination of the candidate blobs. Next, filtering operators, using inter-structure relational knowledge, are used in order to find the winner tuple. A method using template matching and mathematical morphology is implemented following the proposed methodology. Results: A success is achieved if the distance between the automatically detected blob center and the actual structure center is less than or equal to one optic disc radius. The success rates obtained in the different public databases analyzed were: MESSIDOR (99.33%, 98.58%, 97.92%), DIARETDB1 (96.63%, 100%, 97.75%), DRIONS (100%, n/a, 100%) and ONHSD (100%, 98.85%, 97.70%) for optic disc (OD), macula (M) and vascular bundle (VB), respectively. Finally, the overall success rate obtained in this study for each structure was: 99.26% (OD), 98.69% (M) and 98.95% (VB). The average time of processing per image was 4.16 ± 0.72 s. Conclusions: The main advantage of the use of inter-structure relational knowledge was the reduction of the number of false positives in the detection process. The implemented method is able to simultaneously detect four structures. It is fast, robust and its detection results are competitive in relation to other methods of the recent literature. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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