A recursive Bayesian approach to describe retinal vasculature geometry
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Author(s)
Uslu, Fatmatülzehra
Bharath, Anil Anthony
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Deep networks have recently seen significant application to the analysis of medical image data, particularly for segmentation and disease classification. However, there are many situations in which the purpose of analysing a medical image is to perform parameter estimation, assess connectivity or determine geometric relationships. Some of these tasks are well served by probabilistic trackers, including Kalman and particle filters. In this work, we explore how the probabilistic outputs of a single-architecture deep network may be coupled to a probabilistic tracker, taking the form of a particle filter. The tracker provides information not easily available with current deep networks, such as a unique ordering of points along vessel centrelines and edges, whilst the construction of observation models for the tracker is simplified by the use of a deep network. We use the analysis of retinal images in several datasets as the problem domain, and compare estimates of vessel width in a standard dataset (REVIEW) with manually determined measurements.
Date Issued
2019-03
Date Acceptance
2018-10-13
Citation
Pattern Recognition, 2019, 87, pp.157-169
ISSN
0031-3203
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
157
End Page
169
Journal / Book Title
Pattern Recognition
Volume
87
Copyright Statement
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Subjects
cs.CV
cs.AI
0899 Other Information And Computing Sciences
0906 Electrical And Electronic Engineering
0801 Artificial Intelligence And Image Processing
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2018-10-15