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BIOCYBERNETICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 37, Issue 1, Pages 246-254Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bbe.2016.12.007
Keywords
Retinal images; Gabor filter; Blood vessel detection; Image segmentation; Parameter selection
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- Beijing Nova Program [xx2016120]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81101107, 31640035]
- Natural Science Foundation of Beijing [4162008]
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Retinal images play an important role in the early diagnosis of diseases such as diabetes. In the present study, an automatic image processing technique is proposed to segment retinal blood vessels in fundus images. The technique includes the design of a bank of 180 Gabor filters with varying scale and elongation parameters. Furthermore, an optimization method, namely, the imperialism competitive algorithm (ICA), is adopted for automatic parameter selection of the Gabor filter. In addition, a systematic method is proposed to determine the threshold value for reliable performance. Finally, the performance of the proposed approach is analyzed and compared with that of other approaches on the basis of the publicly available DRIVE database. The proposed method achieves an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.953 and an average accuracy of up to 0.9392. Thus, the results show that the proposed method is well comparable with alternative methods in the literature. (C) 2017 Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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