Journal
IEEE ACCESS
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages 32826-32839Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2974027
Keywords
Biomedical imaging; Blood vessels; Image segmentation; Feature extraction; Retinal vessels; Convolution; Atrous convolution; attention module; retinal vessels segmentation; shortcut
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61573132]
- Key Laboratory Project Fund of Heilongjiang Province [DZGC201610]
- Specialized Fund for the Basic Research Operating Expenses Program of Heilongjiang Province [RCYJTD -201806]
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The accuracy of retinal vessels segmentation is of great significance for the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. Especially, the segmentation accuracy of the end of vessels will be affected by the area outside the retinal in fundus image. In this paper, we propose an attention guided U-Net with atrous convolution(AA-UNet), which guides the model to separate vessel and non-vessel pixels and reuses deep features. Firstly, AA-UNet regresses a boundary box to the retinal region to generate an attention mask, which was used as a weighting function to multiply the differential feature map in the model to make the model pay more attention to the vessels region. Secondly, atrous convolution replaces ordinary convolution in feature layer, which can increase the receptive field and reduce the amount of computation. Then, we add two shortcuts to the atrous convolution in order to reuse the features, so that the details of vessel are more prominent. We test our model with the accuracy are 0.9558/0.9640/0.9608 and AUC are 0.9847/0.9824/0.9865 on DRIVE, STARE and CHASE DB1 datasets, respectively. The results show that our method has improvement in the accuracy of retinal vessels segmentation, and exceeded other representative retinal vessels segmentation methods.
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