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Multiscale Blood Vessel Delineation Using B-COSFIRE Filters

Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNIP,volume 9257)

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We propose a delineation algorithm that deals with bar-like structures of different thickness. Detection of linear structures is applicable to several fields ranging from medical images for segmentation of vessels to aerial images for delineation of roads or rivers. The proposed method is suited for any delineation problem and employs a set of B-COSFIRE filters selective for lines and line-endings of different thickness. We determine the most effective filters for the application at hand by Generalized Matrix Learning Vector Quantization (GMLVQ) algorithm. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method by applying it to the task of vessel segmentation in retinal images. We perform experiments on two benchmark data sets, namely DRIVE and STARE. The experimental results show that the proposed delineation algorithm is highly effective and efficient. It can be considered as a general framework for a delineation task in various applications.

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  • Retinal Image
  • Vessel Segmentation
  • Vessel Tree
  • Drive Data
  • Prototype Pattern

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  1. Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Nicola Strisciuglio, George Azzopardi & Nicolai Petkov

  2. Department of Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

    Nicola Strisciuglio & Mario Vento

  3. Intelligent Computer Systems, University of Malta, Msida, Malta

    George Azzopardi

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Strisciuglio, N., Azzopardi, G., Vento, M., Petkov, N. (2015). Multiscale Blood Vessel Delineation Using B-COSFIRE Filters. In: Azzopardi, G., Petkov, N. (eds) Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns. CAIP 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9257. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23117-4_26

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