College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110819, China.
Faculty of Robot Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110819, China.
J Healthc Eng. 2019 Mar 14;2019:2745183. doi: 10.1155/2019/2745183. eCollection 2019.
Accurate optic disc (OD) detection is an essential yet vital step for retinal disease diagnosis. In the paper, an approach for segmenting OD boundary without manpower named full-automatic double boundary extraction is designed. There are two main advantages in it. (1) Since the performances and the computational cost produced by iterations of contour evolution of active contour models- (ACM-) based approaches greatly depend on the initialization, this paper proposes an effective and adaptive initial level set contour extraction approach using saliency detection and threshold techniques. (2) In order to handle unreliable information generated by intensity in abnormal retinal images caused by diseases, a modified LIF approach is presented by incorporating the shape prior information into LIF. We test the effectiveness of the proposed approach on a publicly available DIARETDB0 database. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach outperforms well-known approaches in terms of the average overlapping ratio and accuracy rate.
准确的视盘(OD)检测是视网膜疾病诊断的重要步骤。本文提出了一种无需人工干预的全自动双边界提取方法来分割 OD 边界。它有两个主要优点。(1)由于主动轮廓模型(ACM)的轮廓演化迭代的性能和计算成本极大地取决于初始化,本文提出了一种基于显著度检测和阈值技术的有效和自适应初始水平集轮廓提取方法。(2)为了处理由疾病引起的异常视网膜图像中强度产生的不可靠信息,本文通过将形状先验信息纳入 LIF 提出了一种改进的 LIF 方法。我们在一个公开的 DIARETDB0 数据库上测试了所提出方法的有效性。实验结果表明,我们的方法在平均重叠率和准确率方面优于知名方法。