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Exploratory Dijkstra forest based automatic vessel segmentation: applications in video indirect ophthalmoscopy (VIO).

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Estrada, R; Tomasi, C; Cabrera, MT; Wallace, DK; Freedman, SF; Farsiu, S
Published in: Biomed Opt Express
February 1, 2012

We present a methodology for extracting the vascular network in the human retina using Dijkstra's shortest-path algorithm. Our method preserves vessel thickness, requires no manual intervention, and follows vessel branching naturally and efficiently. To test our method, we constructed a retinal video indirect ophthalmoscopy (VIO) image database from pediatric patients and compared the segmentations achieved by our method and state-of-the-art approaches to a human-drawn gold standard. Our experimental results show that our algorithm outperforms prior state-of-the-art methods, for both single VIO frames and automatically generated, large field-of-view enhanced mosaics. We have made the corresponding dataset and source code freely available online.

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Biomed Opt Express

DOI

EISSN

2156-7085

Publication Date

February 1, 2012

Volume

3

Issue

2

Start / End Page

327 / 339

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • 5102 Atomic, molecular and optical physics
  • 4003 Biomedical engineering
  • 3212 Ophthalmology and optometry
  • 0912 Materials Engineering
  • 0205 Optical Physics
 

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Estrada, R., Tomasi, C., Cabrera, M. T., Wallace, D. K., Freedman, S. F., & Farsiu, S. (2012). Exploratory Dijkstra forest based automatic vessel segmentation: applications in video indirect ophthalmoscopy (VIO). Biomed Opt Express, 3(2), 327–339. https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.3.000327
Estrada, Rolando, Carlo Tomasi, Michelle T. Cabrera, David K. Wallace, Sharon F. Freedman, and Sina Farsiu. “Exploratory Dijkstra forest based automatic vessel segmentation: applications in video indirect ophthalmoscopy (VIO).Biomed Opt Express 3, no. 2 (February 1, 2012): 327–39. https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.3.000327.
Estrada R, Tomasi C, Cabrera MT, Wallace DK, Freedman SF, Farsiu S. Exploratory Dijkstra forest based automatic vessel segmentation: applications in video indirect ophthalmoscopy (VIO). Biomed Opt Express. 2012 Feb 1;3(2):327–39.
Estrada, Rolando, et al. “Exploratory Dijkstra forest based automatic vessel segmentation: applications in video indirect ophthalmoscopy (VIO).Biomed Opt Express, vol. 3, no. 2, Feb. 2012, pp. 327–39. Pubmed, doi:10.1364/BOE.3.000327.
Estrada R, Tomasi C, Cabrera MT, Wallace DK, Freedman SF, Farsiu S. Exploratory Dijkstra forest based automatic vessel segmentation: applications in video indirect ophthalmoscopy (VIO). Biomed Opt Express. 2012 Feb 1;3(2):327–339.
Journal cover image

Published In

Biomed Opt Express

DOI

EISSN

2156-7085

Publication Date

February 1, 2012

Volume

3

Issue

2

Start / End Page

327 / 339

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • 5102 Atomic, molecular and optical physics
  • 4003 Biomedical engineering
  • 3212 Ophthalmology and optometry
  • 0912 Materials Engineering
  • 0205 Optical Physics