Deep Convolutional Artery/Vein Classification of Retinal Vessels

  • Maria Ines Meyer*
  • , Adrian Galdran
  • , Pedro Costa
  • , Ana Maria Mendonça
  • , Aurélio Campilho
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The classification of retinal vessels into arteries and veins in eye fundus images is a relevant task for the automatic assessment of vascular changes. This paper presents a new approach to solve this problem by means of a Fully-Connected Convolutional Neural Network that is specifically adapted for artery/vein classification. For this, a loss function that focuses only on pixels belonging to the retinal vessel tree is built. The relevance of providing the model with different chromatic components of the source images is also analyzed. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated on the RITE dataset of retinal images, achieving promising results, with an accuracy of 96 % on large caliber vessels, and an overall accuracy of 84 %.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationImage Analysis and Recognition - 15th International Conference, ICIAR 2018, Proceedings
EditorsBart ter Haar Romeny, Fakhri Karray, Aurelio Campilho
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages622-630
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783319929996
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event15th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2018 - Povoa de Varzim, Portugal
Duration: 27 Jun 201829 Jun 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10882 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference15th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2018
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityPovoa de Varzim
Period27/06/1829/06/18

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