Dong Xuanzhao, Zhu Wenhui, Li Xin, Sun Guoxin, Su Yi, Dumitrascu Oana M, Wang Yalin
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University, AZ, USA.
Banner Alzheimer's Institute, AZ, USA.
Proc IEEE Int Symp Biomed Imaging. 2025 Apr;2025. doi: 10.1109/isbi60581.2025.10981104. Epub 2025 May 12.
Retinal fundus photography enhancement is important for diagnosing and monitoring retinal diseases. However, early approaches to retinal image enhancement, such as those based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), often struggle to preserve the complex topological information of blood vessels, resulting in spurious or missing vessel structures. The persistence diagram, which captures topological features based on the persistence of topological structures under different filtrations, provides a promising way to represent the structure information. In this work, we propose a topology-preserving training paradigm that regularizes blood vessel structures by minimizing the differences of persistence diagrams. We call the resulting framework Topology Preserving Optimal Transport (TPOT). Experimental results on a large-scale dataset demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method compared to several state-of-the-art supervised and unsupervised techniques, both in terms of image quality and performance in the downstream blood vessel segmentation task. The code is available at https://github.com/Retinal-Research/TPOT.
视网膜眼底摄影增强对于视网膜疾病的诊断和监测至关重要。然而,早期的视网膜图像增强方法,如基于生成对抗网络(GANs)的方法,往往难以保留血管的复杂拓扑信息,导致出现虚假或缺失的血管结构。持久图基于不同过滤下拓扑结构的持久性来捕获拓扑特征,为表示结构信息提供了一种很有前景的方法。在这项工作中,我们提出了一种拓扑保留训练范式,通过最小化持久图的差异来规范血管结构。我们将由此产生的框架称为拓扑保留最优传输(TPOT)。在大规模数据集上的实验结果表明,与几种最新的监督和无监督技术相比,该方法在图像质量和下游血管分割任务的性能方面都具有优越性。代码可在https://github.com/Retinal-Research/TPOT获取。