Unsupervised Fuzzy Based Vessel Segmentation In Pathological Digital Fundus Images

Authors:
Giri Babu Kande;P. Venkata Subbaiah;T. Satya Savithri
Affiliations:
Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology, Guntur, India;Amrita Sai Institute of Science & Technology, Paritala, India;Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India
Venue:
Journal of Medical Systems
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Performing the segmentation of vasculature in the retinal images having pathology is a challenging problem. This paper presents a novel approach for automated segmentation of the vasculature in retinal images. The approach uses the intensity information from red and green channels of the same retinal image to correct non-uniform illumination in color fundus images. Matched filtering is utilized to enhance the contrast of blood vessels against the background. The enhanced blood vessels are then segmented by employing spatially weighted fuzzy c-means clustering based thresholding which can well maintain the spatial structure of the vascular tree segments. The proposed method's performance is evaluated on publicly available DRIVE and STARE databases of manually labeled images. On the DRIVE and STARE databases, it achieves an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.9518 and 0.9602 respectively, being superior to those presented by state-of-the-art unsupervised approaches and comparable to those obtained with the supervised methods.