DUNet: A deformable network for retinal vessel segmentation

Automatic segmentation of retinal vessels in fundus images plays an important role in the diagnosis of some diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. In this paper, we propose Deformable U-Net (DUNet), which exploits the retinal vessels’ local features with a U-shape architecture, in an end to end...

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Vydáno v:Knowledge-based systems Ročník 178; s. 149 - 162
Hlavní autoři: Jin, Qiangguo, Meng, Zhaopeng, Pham, Tuan D., Chen, Qi, Wei, Leyi, Su, Ran
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 15.08.2019
Elsevier Science Ltd
Témata:
Blood vessels
Convolution
Deformable convolution
Deformation
Diabetes
Diagnosis
Disease
DUNet
Feature extraction
Formability
Hypertension
Image segmentation
Localization
Medical diagnosis
Networks
Neural networks
Operators
Retinal blood vessel
Segmentation
U-Net
DUNet
Segmentation
Retinal blood vessel
U-Net
Deformable convolution
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Shrnutí:Automatic segmentation of retinal vessels in fundus images plays an important role in the diagnosis of some diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. In this paper, we propose Deformable U-Net (DUNet), which exploits the retinal vessels’ local features with a U-shape architecture, in an end to end manner for retinal vessel segmentation. Inspired by the recently introduced deformable convolutional networks, we integrate the deformable convolution into the proposed network. The DUNet, with upsampling operators to increase the output resolution, is designed to extract context information and enable precise localization by combining low-level features with high-level ones. Furthermore, DUNet captures the retinal vessels at various shapes and scales by adaptively adjusting the receptive fields according to vessels’ scales and shapes. Public datasets: DRIVE, STARE, CHASE_DB1 and HRF are used to test our models. Detailed comparisons between the proposed network and the deformable neural network, U-Net are provided in our study. Results show that more detailed vessels can be extracted by DUNet and it exhibits state-of-the-art performance for retinal vessel segmentation with a global accuracy of 0.9566/0.9641/0.9610/0.9651 and AUC of 0.9802/0.9832/0.9804/0.9831 on DRIVE, STARE, CHASE_DB1 and HRF respectively. Moreover, to show the generalization ability of the DUNet, we use another two retinal vessel data sets, i.e., WIDE and SYNTHE, to qualitatively and quantitatively analyze and compare with other methods. Extensive cross-training evaluations are used to further assess the extendibility of DUNet. The proposed method has the potential to be applied to the early diagnosis of diseases. •A deep neural network (DUNet) for automatic segmentation of retinal vessel is built.•DUNet exploits the retinal vessels’ features with a U-shape architecture.•DUNet captures retinal vessels adaptively, according to vessels’ scales and shapes.•DUNet extracts more detailed vessels than deformable neural network and U-Net.•Comparisons between many methods show competitive performance and generalization.
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ISSN:0950-7051
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DOI:10.1016/j.knosys.2019.04.025