Journal
COMPUTERIZED MEDICAL IMAGING AND GRAPHICS
Volume 38, Issue 6, Pages 517-525Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2014.05.010
Keywords
Retinal image; Vessel tracking; Bayesian theory; Multi-scale line detection
Funding
- NSFC [81271650]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University [NCET10-0041]
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A retinal vessel tracking method based on Bayesian theory and multi-scale line detection is proposed in this paper. The optic disk is located by a PCA method and the initial points of tracking are identified. In each step, candidate points for vessel edges are selected on a semi-ellipse. Three types of vessel structure are considered in the tracking: normal vessel, branching, and crossing. To determine the new pair of edge points, the characteristics of the vessel intensity profiles along both the cross section and the longitudinal direction are considered in the tracking. A Gaussian model is assumed in the cross section and multi-scale line detection is employed in the longitudinal direction. The advantage of the proposed method is that two dimensional vessel information is employed, which makes it work better than methods using one dimensional information only. Our method is tested on the REVIEW database and a comparison study is performed. Experimental results show that the proposed method is precise and robust in tracking vessel edges. (c) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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