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We propose a pixel color amplification theory and family of enhancement methods to facilitate segmentation tasks on retinal images. Our novel re-interpretation of the image distortion model underlying dehazing theory shows how three existing priors commonly used by the dehazing community and a novel fourth prior are related. We utilize the theory to develop a family of enhancement methods for retinal images, including novel methods for whole image brightening and darkening. We show a novel derivation of the Unsharp Masking algorithm. We evaluate the enhancement methods as a pre-processing step to a challenging multi-task segmentation problem and show large increases in performance on all tasks, with Dice score increases over a no-enhancement baseline by as much as 0.491. We provide evidence that our enhancement preprocessing is useful for unbalanced and difficult data. We show that the enhancements can perform class balancing by composing them together.
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We thank Dr. Alexander R. Gaudio, a retinal specialist and expert in degenerative retinal diseases, for his positive feedback and education of fundus images.
Supported in part by the National Funds through the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia within under Project CMUPERI/TIC/0028/2014.
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Gaudio, A., Smailagic, A., Campilho, A. (2020). Enhancement of Retinal Fundus Images via Pixel Color Amplification. In: Campilho, A., Karray, F., Wang, Z. (eds) Image Analysis and Recognition. ICIAR 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12132. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50516-5_26
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