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We present in this paper a novel optic disc detection method based on a fully convolutional network and visual saliency in retinal fundus images. Firstly, we employ the morphological reconstruction-based object detection method to locate the optic disc region roughly. According to the location result, a 400 × 400 image patch that covers the whole optic disc is obtained by cropping the original retinal fundus image. Secondly, the Simple Linear Iterative Cluster approach is utilized to segment such an image patch into many smaller superpixels. Thirdly, each superpixel is assigned a uniform initial saliency value according to the background prior information based on the assumption that the superpixels located on the boundary of the image belong to the background. Meanwhile, we use a pretrained fully convolutional network to extract the deep features from different layers of the network and design the strategy to represent each superpixel by the deep features. Finally, both the background prior information and the deep features are integrated into the single-layer cellular automata framework to gain the accurate optic disc detection result. We utilize the DRISHTI-GS dataset and RIM-ONE r3 dataset to evaluate the performance of our method. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can overcome the influence of intensity inhomogeneity, weak contrast, and the complex surroundings of the optic disc effectively and has superior performance in terms of accuracy and robustness.

Fully Convolutional Network and Visual Saliency-Based Automatic Optic Disc Detection in Retinal Fundus Images