# Domain Agnostic Pipeline for Retina Vessel Segmentation

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.09215 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.09215/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 5 of its 15 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 18 Feb 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1505.04597/) (2015)
- [Encoder-Decoder with Atrous Separable Convolution for Semantic Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.02611/) (2018)
- [Recurrent Residual Convolutional Neural Network based on U-Net (R2U-Net) for Medical Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.06955/) (2018)
- [DUNet: A deformable network for retinal vessel segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.01206/) (2018)
- [RV-GAN: Segmenting Retinal Vascular Structure in Fundus Photographs using a Novel Multi-scale Generative Adversarial Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.00535/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Sculpting Efficiency: Pruning Medical Imaging Models for On-Device Inference](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.05090/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Automatic segmentation of retina vessels plays a pivotal role in clinical diagnosis of prevalent eye diseases, such as, Diabetic Retinopathy or Age-related Macular Degeneration. Due to the complex construction of blood vessels, with drastically varying thicknesses, accurate vessel segmentation can be quite a challenging task. In this work we show that it is possible to achieve near state-of-the-art performance, by crafting a careful thought pre-processing pipeline, without having to resort to complex networks and/or training routines. We also show that our model is able to maintain the same high segmentation performance across different datasets, very poor quality fundus images, as well as images of severe pathological cases. Code and models featured in this paper can be downloaded from http://github.com/farrell236/retina_segmentation. We also demonstrate the potential of our model at http://lazarus.ddns.net:8502.