A supervised blood vessel segmentation technique for digital Fundus images using Zernike Moment based features

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This paper proposes a new supervised method for blood vessel segmentation using Zernike moment-based shape descriptors. The method implements a pixel wise classification by computing a 11-D feature vector comprising of both statistical (gray-level) features and shape-based (Zernike moment) features. Also the feature set contains optimal coefficients of the Zernike Moments which were derived based on the maximum differentiability between the blood vessel and background pixels. A manually selected training points obtained from the training set of the DRIVE dataset, covering all possible manifestations were used for training the ANN-based binary classifier. The method was evaluated on unknown test samples of DRIVE and STARE databases and returned accuracies of 0.945 and 0.9486 respectively, outperforming other existing supervised learning methods. Further, the segmented outputs were able to cover thinner blood vessels better than previous methods, aiding in early detection of pathologies.

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Ganesan, K., Naik, G., Adapa, D., Raj, A. N. J., Alisetti, S. N., & Zhuang, Z. (2020). A supervised blood vessel segmentation technique for digital Fundus images using Zernike Moment based features. PLoS ONE, 15(3). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229831

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