Retinal vessel segmentation using Gabor Filter and Textons

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Abstract

This paper presents a retinal vessel segmentation method that is inspired by the
human visual system and uses a Gabor filter bank. Machine learning is used to
optimize the filter parameters for retinal vessel extraction. The filter responses are represented as textons and this allows the corresponding membership functions to be used as the framework for learning vessel and non-vessel classes. Then, vessel texton memberships are used to generate segmentation results. We evaluate our method using the publicly available DRIVE database. It achieves competitive performance (sensitivity=0.7673, specificity=0.9602, accuracy=0.9430) compared to other recently published work. These figures are particularly interesting as our filter bank is quite generic and only includes Gabor responses. Our experimental results also show that the performance, in terms of sensitivity, is superior to other methods.
Original languageEnglish
Pages155-160
Number of pages6
Publication statusPublished - 2014
EventMedical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA 2014) - Royal Holloway College, London, United Kingdom
Duration: 9 Jul 201411 Jul 2014

Conference

ConferenceMedical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA 2014)
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period9/07/1411/07/14

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