Abstract
For timely diagnosis of retinal disease, routine retinal monitoring of people with high risk should be put in place. To assist the ophthalmologists in performing retinal analysis efficiently and accurately, numerous studies have been conducted to propose an automated retinal diagnosis system. One of the crucial steps for such a system is accurate detection of retinal blood vessels from retinal image. In this paper, we investigated the use of automatic binarization methods on pre-processed fundus image to detect retinal blood vessels. Three methods for binarization were investigated in this study, namely Otsu's method, ISODATA and K-means clustering method. The resulting binarized output indicated good detection of large vessels but most of the smaller vessels were left undetected. To address this issue, Gabor wavelet filter was used to enhance the small blood vessel structures before binarization of the filter output. Combining the binary images from both binarization with and without Gabor filter resulted in significant improvement of the overall detection rate of the retinal blood vessels. The proposed method proved to be comparable to other unsupervised techniques in the literature when validated using the publicly available fundus image database, DRIVE.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 163-167 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | International Journal of Engineering and Technology(UAE) |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2018 |
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Keywords
- Binarization
- Blood vessel
- Gabor wavelet
- Retinal image
- Segmentation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biotechnology
- Computer Science (miscellaneous)
- Environmental Engineering
- Chemical Engineering(all)
- Engineering(all)
- Hardware and Architecture
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Segmenting retinal blood vessels with gabor filter and automatic binarization. / Ali, Aziah; Hussain, Aini; Wan Zaki, Wan Mimi Diyana.
In: International Journal of Engineering and Technology(UAE), Vol. 7, No. 4, 01.01.2018, p. 163-167.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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AB - For timely diagnosis of retinal disease, routine retinal monitoring of people with high risk should be put in place. To assist the ophthalmologists in performing retinal analysis efficiently and accurately, numerous studies have been conducted to propose an automated retinal diagnosis system. One of the crucial steps for such a system is accurate detection of retinal blood vessels from retinal image. In this paper, we investigated the use of automatic binarization methods on pre-processed fundus image to detect retinal blood vessels. Three methods for binarization were investigated in this study, namely Otsu's method, ISODATA and K-means clustering method. The resulting binarized output indicated good detection of large vessels but most of the smaller vessels were left undetected. To address this issue, Gabor wavelet filter was used to enhance the small blood vessel structures before binarization of the filter output. Combining the binary images from both binarization with and without Gabor filter resulted in significant improvement of the overall detection rate of the retinal blood vessels. The proposed method proved to be comparable to other unsupervised techniques in the literature when validated using the publicly available fundus image database, DRIVE.
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