Abstract
Extraction of blood vessels within the retina is an important task that can help in detecting a number of diseases, including diabetic retinopathy. Current techniques achieve good, but not perfect performance and this suggests that improved preprocessing may be needed. The image ray transform is a method to highlight tubular features (such as blood vessels) based upon an analogy to light rays. The transform has been employed to enhance retinal images from the DRIVE database, and a simple classification technique has been used to show the potential of the transform as a preprocessor for other supervised learning techniques. Results also suggest potential for using the ray transform to detect other features in the fundus images, such as the fovea and optic disc.
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Cummings, A.H., Nixon, M.S. (2010). Retinal Vessel Extraction with the Image Ray Transform. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6454. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17274-8_33
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