Open AccessAn innovate approach for retinal blood vessel segmentation using mixture of supervised and unsupervised methods
Author(s) -
Sayed Md. Abu,
Saha Sajib,
Rahaman G. M. Atiqur,
Ghosh Tanmai K.,
Kanagasingam Yogesan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iet image processing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.401
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1751-9667
pISSN - 1751-9659
DOI - 10.1049/ipr2.12018
Subject(s) - artificial intelligence , computer science , segmentation , context (archaeology) , pattern recognition (psychology) , retinal , image segmentation , computer vision , medicine , ophthalmology , paleontology , biology
Segmentation of retinal blood vessels is a very important diagnostic procedure in ophthalmology. Segmenting blood vessels in the presence of pathological lesions is a major challenge. In this paper, an innovative approach to segment the retinal blood vessel in the presence of pathology is proposed. The method combines both supervised and unsupervised approaches in the retinal imaging context. Two innovative descriptors named local Haar pattern and modified speeded up robust features are also proposed. Experiments are conducted on three publicly available datasets named: DRIVE, STARE and CHASE DB1, and the proposed method has been compared against the state‐of‐the‐art methods. The proposed method is found about 1% more accurate than the best performing supervised method and 2% more accurate than the state‐of‐the‐art Nguyen et al.’s method.