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A Morphological Hessian Based Approach for Retinal Blood Vessels Segmentation and Denoising Using Region Based Otsu Thresholding

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  • Khan BahadarKhan
  • Amir A Khaliq
  • Muhammad Shahid

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Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) harm retinal blood vessels in the eye causing visual deficiency. The appearance and structure of blood vessels in retinal images play an essential part in the diagnoses of an eye sicknesses. We proposed a less computational unsupervised automated technique with promising results for detection of retinal vasculature by using morphological hessian based approach and region based Otsu thresholding. Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE) and morphological filters have been used for enhancement and to remove low frequency noise or geometrical objects, respectively. The hessian matrix and eigenvalues approach used has been in a modified form at two different scales to extract wide and thin vessel enhanced images separately. Otsu thresholding has been further applied in a novel way to classify vessel and non-vessel pixels from both enhanced images. Finally, postprocessing steps has been used to eliminate the unwanted region/segment, non-vessel pixels, disease abnormalities and noise, to obtain a final segmented image. The proposed technique has been analyzed on the openly accessible DRIVE (Digital Retinal Images for Vessel Extraction) and STARE (STructured Analysis of the REtina) databases along with the ground truth data that has been precisely marked by the experts.

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  • Khan BahadarKhan & Amir A Khaliq & Muhammad Shahid, 2016. "A Morphological Hessian Based Approach for Retinal Blood Vessels Segmentation and Denoising Using Region Based Otsu Thresholding," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(7), pages 1-19, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0158996
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158996
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    1. Jan Henrik Terheyden & Maximilian W M Wintergerst & Peyman Falahat & Moritz Berger & Frank G Holz & Robert P Finger, 2020. "Automated thresholding algorithms outperform manual thresholding in macular optical coherence tomography angiography image analysis," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(3), pages 1-12, March.

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