• 眼底血管分割:一种多网络融合方法

    Retinal vessel segmentation: A multi-network fusion method

    • 在临床诊断眼底疾病的重要辅助方法中,利用深度学习技术进行视网膜图像分割显得尤为关键。然而,现有方法未能充分考虑感受野在高分辨率图像特征提取中的重要性,同时视网膜图像受到多种因素影响,如光照变化、噪声和患者个体差异等。为此,提出了一种结合特征金字塔网络(Feature Pyramid Networks, FPN)、U-Net与通道注意力机制的深度学习模型(FPN-Unet)。同时,为了更好地捕捉目标边缘,引入了边界标签松弛损失函数(Boundary Label Relaxation, BLR)。FPN可以有效地处理不同尺度的特征信息,而U-Net的对称结构增强了上下文信息的利用。通过引入通道注意力机制,模型能够更加聚焦于重要的血管区域,抑制背景噪声,从而提升分割精度。在多个公开数据集上进行了验证,证明了此方法的有效性,并将其与现有的分割模型进行了对比。实验结果显示:FPN-Unet能够有效提高视网膜图像的分割精度,在两个公共合理的高分辨率Fives与HRF数据集上,准确率分别达到0.9877和0.9732,灵敏度分别为0.9085和0.8324,均优于传统的视网膜图像分割方法,且在小目标和复杂背景处理上表现出色。结果表明:结合FPN、Unet网络和通道注意力机制的视网膜图像分割方法有望为临床眼科应用提供更为准确和可靠的支撑。

       

      Abstract: In the clinical diagnosis of retinal diseases, the use of deep learning techniques for retinal image segmentation is crucial. However, existing methods have not sufficiently considered the importance of receptive fields in high-resolution image feature extraction. Additionally, retinal images are influenced by various factors such as lighting variations, noise, and individual patient differences. To address this, this paper proposes a deep learning model (FPN-Unet) that combines Feature Pyramid Networks (FPN), U-Net, and Channel attention mechanisms. At the same time, Boundary Label Relaxation (BLR) is introduced to better capture the edges of the target. FPN effectively handles multi-scale feature information, while the symmetric structure of U-Net enhances the utilization of contextual information. By introducing attention mechanisms, the model can focus more on important vascular regions and suppress background noise, thereby improving segmentation accuracy. We validated the model on several public datasets, demonstrating its effectiveness and comparing it with existing segmentation models. The experimental results show that FPN-Unet significantly improves retinal image segmentation accuracy, achieving an accuracy of 0.9877 and 0.9732, and sensitivity of 0.9085 and 0.8324 on the high-resolution Fives and HRF datasets, respectively, outperforming traditional retinal image segmentation methods. Moreover, it excels in handling small targets and complex backgrounds. These results suggest that the combination of FPN、U-Net and Channel Attention Mechanism (CAM) for retinal image segmentation holds great promise for providing more accurate and reliable support in clinical ophthalmology applications.

       

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