• Laser & Optoelectronics Progress
  • Vol. 57, Issue 8, 081023 (2020)
Wenbin Wang, Canbiao Li, and Chujun Zheng*
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    DOI: 10.3788/LOP57.081023 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Wenbin Wang, Canbiao Li, Chujun Zheng. Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation Using Hessian Based Orientational Adaptive Gabor Wavelet[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2020, 57(8): 081023 Copy Citation Text show less
    Comparison of extracted results of green channel and other channels. (a) Color fundus image; (b) red channel; (c) green channel; (d) blue channel
    Fig. 1. Comparison of extracted results of green channel and other channels. (a) Color fundus image; (b) red channel; (c) green channel; (d) blue channel
    Flow chart of proposed method
    Fig. 2. Flow chart of proposed method
    Images of pre-processing results. (a) Color fundus image; (b) green channel; (c) expansion of region of interest in Fig. 3(b); (d) image enhancement of Retinex in Fig. 3(c)
    Fig. 3. Images of pre-processing results. (a) Color fundus image; (b) green channel; (c) expansion of region of interest in Fig. 3(b); (d) image enhancement of Retinex in Fig. 3(c)
    Normalized results of Hessian matrix feature. (a) Color fundus image; (b) fundus image of green channel of Fig. 4(a); (c) maximal eigenvalue feature image of Hessian matrix of Fig. 4(b)
    Fig. 4. Normalized results of Hessian matrix feature. (a) Color fundus image; (b) fundus image of green channel of Fig. 4(a); (c) maximal eigenvalue feature image of Hessian matrix of Fig. 4(b)
    Normalized results of Gabor wavelet transform features at different scales. (a) a=2; (b) a=3; (c) a=4; (d) a=5
    Fig. 5. Normalized results of Gabor wavelet transform features at different scales. (a) a=2; (b) a=3; (c) a=4; (d) a=5
    Segmentation results of proposed method on DRIVE database. (a) Color fundus image; (b) fundus image of green channel of Fig. 6(a); (c) expert manual segmentation image; (d) segmentation image of proposed method; (e) segmentation image of Gabor-SVM experiment
    Fig. 6. Segmentation results of proposed method on DRIVE database. (a) Color fundus image; (b) fundus image of green channel of Fig. 6(a); (c) expert manual segmentation image; (d) segmentation image of proposed method; (e) segmentation image of Gabor-SVM experiment
    Comparison of partial retinal segmentation images. (a) Complete segmentation image; (b)-(d) partial segmentation images of Fig. 7(a)
    Fig. 7. Comparison of partial retinal segmentation images. (a) Complete segmentation image; (b)-(d) partial segmentation images of Fig. 7(a)
    MethodSNSPACC
    Chaudhuri et al.[1]0.61680.97410.9284
    Hoover et al.[2]--0.9441
    Soares et al.[8]0.72830.97880.9467
    Zhang et al.[18]0.71200.97240.9382
    First observer0.77630.97230.9470
    Proposed method0.72310.97590.9433
    Table 1. Performance comparison of blood vessel segmentation methods on DRIVE database
    Wenbin Wang, Canbiao Li, Chujun Zheng. Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation Using Hessian Based Orientational Adaptive Gabor Wavelet[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2020, 57(8): 081023
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