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Comparison Different Vessel Segmentation Methods in Automated Microaneurysms Detection in Retinal Images using Convolutional Neural Networks
Image processing techniques provide important assistance to physicians and
relieve their workload in different tasks. In particular, identifying objects
of interest such as lesions and anatomical structures from the image is a
challenging and iterative process that can be done by computerized approaches
in a successful manner. Microaneurysms (MAs) detection is a crucial step in
retinal image analysis algorithms. The goal of MAs detection is to find the
progress and at last identification of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in the retinal
images. The objective of this study is to apply three retinal vessel
segmentation methods, Laplacian-of-Gaussian (LoG), Canny edge detector, and
Matched filter to compare results of MAs detection using a combination of
unsupervised and supervised learning either in the normal images or in the
presence of DR. The steps for the algorithm are as following: 1) Preprocessing
and Enhancement, 2) vessel segmentation and masking, 3) MAs detection and
Localization using a combination of Matching based approach and Convolutional
Neural Networks. To evaluate the accuracy of our proposed method, we compared
the output of our method with the ground truth that collected by
ophthalmologists. By using the LoG vessel segmentation, our algorithm found a
sensitivity of more than 85% in the detection of MAs for 100 color images in a
local retinal database and 40 images of a public dataset (DRIVE). For the Canny
vessel segmentation, our automated algorithm found a sensitivity of more than
80% in the detection of MAs for all 140 images of two databases. And lastly,
using the Matched filter, our algorithm found a sensitivity of more than 87% in
the detection of MAs in both local and DRIVE datasets.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2004.09493,
arXiv:2005.09098, arXiv:2004.10253, arXiv:2004.1169
The Efficacy of Microaneurysms Detection With and Without Vessel Segmentation in Color Retinal Images
Computer-Aided Diagnosis systems are required to extract suitable information
about retina and its changes. In particular, identifying objects of interest
such as lesions and anatomical structures from the retinal images is a
challenging and iterative process that is doable by image processing
approaches. Microaneurysm (MAs) are one set of these changes caused by diabetic
retinopathy (DR). In fact, MAs detection is the main step for the
identification of DR in the retinal images analysis. The objective of this
study is to apply an automated method for the detection of MAs and compare the
results of detection with and without vessel segmentation and masking either in
the normal or abnormal image. The steps for detection and segmentation are as
follows. In the first step, we did preprocessing, by using top-hat
transformation. Our main processing was included applying Radon transform, to
segment the vessels and masking them. At last, we did the MAs detection step
using a combination of Laplacian-of-Gaussian and Convolutional Neural Networks.
To evaluate the accuracy of our proposed method, we compare the output of our
proposed method with the ground truth that collected by ophthalmologists. With
vessel segmentation, our algorithm found a sensitivity of more than 85% in the
detection of MAs with 11 false-positive rates per image for 100 color images in
a local retinal database and 20 images of a public dataset (DRIVE). Also
without vessel segmentation, our automated algorithm finds a sensitivity of
about 90% in the detection of MAs with 73 false positives per image for all 120
images of two databases. In conclusion, with vessel segmentation, we have
acceptable sensitivity and specificity, as a necessary step in some diagnostic
algorithm for retinal pathology.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2004.09493,
arXiv:2005.0909