Abstract：
:Mosaicking of retinal images is potentially useful for ophthalmologists and computer-aided diagnostic schemes. Vascular bifurcations can be used as features for matching and stitching of retinal images. A fully convolutional network model is employed to segment vascular structures in retinal images to detect vascular bifurcations. Then, bifurcations are extracted as feature points on the vascular mask by a robust and efficient approach. Transformation parameters for stitching can be estimated from the correspondence of vascular bifurcations. The proposed feature detection and mosaic method is evaluated on retinal images of 14 different eyes, 62 retinal images. The proposed method achieves a considerably higher average recall rate of matching for paired images compared with speeded-up robust features and scale-invariant feature transform. The running time of our method was also lower than other methods. Results produced by the proposed method superior to that of AutoStitch, photomerge function in Photoshop cs6 and ICE, demonstrate that accurate matching of detected vascular bifurcations could lead to high-quality mosaic of retinal images.
journal_name
J Healthc Engjournal_title
Journal of healthcare engineeringauthors
Feng X,Cai G,Gou X,Yun Z,Wang W,Yang Wdoi
10.1155/2020/7156408subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-01-09 00:00:00pages
7156408eissn
2040-2295issn
2040-2309journal_volume
2020pub_type
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