This paper presents a supervised retinal vessel segmentation by incorporating vessel filtering and wavelet transform features from orientation scores (OSs), and green intensity. Through an anisotropic wavelet-type transform, a 2D image is lifted to a 3D orientation score in the Lie-group domain of positions and orientations R2⋊S1. Elongated structures are disentangled into their corresponding orientation planes and enhanced via multi-orientation vessel filtering. In addition, scale-selective OSs (in the domain of positions, orientations and scales R2⋊S1×R+) are obtained by adding a scale adaptation to the wavelet transform. Features are optimally extracted by taking maximum orientation responses at multiple scales, to represent vessels of changing calibers. Finally, we train a Random Forest classifier for vessel segmentation. Extensive validations show that our method achieves a competitive segmentation, and better vessel preservation with less false detections compared with the state-of-the-art methods.
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Zhang, J., Chen, Y., Bekkers, E., Wang, M., Dashtbozorg, B., & Romeny, B. M. ter H. (2017). Retinal vessel delineation using a brain-inspired wavelet transform and random forest. Pattern Recognition, 69, 107–123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2017.04.008
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