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Optimizing the trainable B-COSFIRE filter for retinal blood vessel segmentation.

ABSTRACT: Segmentation of the retinal blood vessels using filtering techniques is a widely used step in the development of an automated system for diagnostic retinal image analysis. This paper optimized the blood vessel segmentation, by extending the trainable B-COSFIRE filter via identification of more optimal parameters. The filter parameters are introduced using an optimization procedure to three public datasets (STARE, DRIVE, and CHASE-DB1). The suggested approach considers analyzing thresholding parameters selection followed by application of background artifacts removal techniques. The approach results are better than the other state of the art methods used for vessel segmentation. ANOVA analysis technique is also used to identify the most significant parameters that are impacting the performance results (p-value ¡ 0.05). The proposed enhancement has improved the vessel segmentation accuracy in DRIVE, STARE and CHASE-DB1 to 95.47, 95.30 and 95.30, respectively.

SUBMITTER: Badawi SA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6238769 | biostudies-other | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Optimizing the trainable B-COSFIRE filter for retinal blood vessel segmentation.

Badawi Sufian A SA Fraz Muhammad Moazam MM

PeerJ 20181113

Segmentation of the retinal blood vessels using filtering techniques is a widely used step in the development of an automated system for diagnostic retinal image analysis. This paper optimized the blood vessel segmentation, by extending the trainable B-COSFIRE filter via identification of more optimal parameters. The filter parameters are introduced using an optimization procedure to three public datasets (STARE, DRIVE, and CHASE-DB1). The suggested approach considers analyzing thresholding para ...[more]

PMID: 30479888

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