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Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation Using Line Operators and Support Vector Classification

Source: IEEE Transactions on medical imaging, Vol. 26, No. 10, pp. 1357-1365, 2007 Authors: Elisa Ricci and Renzo Perfetti

Reporter: Pei-Yen Pai


Date: 2008.01.10

Outline
Introduction Proposed method Experimental results

Conclusions
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Introduction (1/2)

Retinal image

Vessel segmentation image

Introduction (2/2)

Color retinal image

Green channel of retinal image


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Line Detector (1/4)

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S i, j Li, j N i, j

S(i,j) is line strength of the pixel. L(i,j) is line with the largest average grey level. N(i,j) is the average grey level in the square windows.
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Line Detector (2/4)

Line Detector (3/4)

Line Detector (4/4)

S o i, j Lo i, j N i, j orientations : 00 , 450 , 900 , and 1350

Assuming three pixels is considerer: So(i,j) is line strength of the pixel three pixels. Lo (i,j) is line with the largest average grey level. N(i,j) is the average grey level in the square windows.
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ex : orthogonaldirection for 300 , 450 and 600 is 1350

Feature Vector
X S i, j S o i, j I i, j
I(i,j) is the gray level value at the pixel.

where xi is the ith feature i 1,2 ,3 of the feature vector.

xi i xi (Normalization) i

, i and i are the correspond mean and standard deviation ing

SVM Classification

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Experiments
STARE database
20 images 700 x 605 pixels FOV (field of view): 650 x 550 pixels Manually segmented by 2 observers First observer as ground truth
FOV

DRIVE database
40 images 768 x 584 pixels FOV: 540 x 540 pixels 20 images for training set and 20 images for test set Four pathological images in the test set Manually segmented by 2 observers on test set First observer as ground truth

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STARE database

DRIVE database

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Experimental Results 1/6


TPR: 0.903 FPR: 0.061 TPR:0.775 FPR: 0.0275

(Receiver operating characteristic)

SVM classifier: 20000 manually segmented pixels SVM classifier: 20000 manually segmented pixels from 20 images from 20 training set images

TPR: The true positive rate. FPR: The false positive rate.
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Experimental Results 2/6

AUC: the area under the ROC curve ACCURACY: the total NO. of correctly classified pixels / the NO. of pixels in the image FOV.
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Experimental Results 3/6

Image segmented using the line detector


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Experimental Results 4/6

Linear SVM

Observer A

Observer B

Linear SVM

Observer A

Observer B

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Experimental Results 5/6

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Experimental Results 6/6

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Conclusions
Simple computation Good results with respect to existing unsupervised methods The supervised approach requires fewer feature than existing methods

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