The retinal vessels are very important for the detection of several vascular diseases, and are the only vessels in the body clearly visible using optical techniques. However, there are few quantitative studies of the relationships between retinal vessel features and disease due to the practical difficulties in efficiently extracting measurements that are consistent and precise. This project focuses on precise segmentation and measurement of retinal vascular features.

Bashir Al-Diri, Andrew Hunter, David Steel, (2009), “An Active Contour Model for Segmenting and Measuring Retinal Vessels”, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Sep; 28(9):1488-97. Epub 2009 Mar 24.
Lowell, J.A., Hunter, A., Steel, D., Basu, A., Ryder, R. & Kennedy, R.L. (2004). Measurement of retinal vessel widths from fundus images based on 2-d modeling. IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 23(10), 1196-1204.

To download the REVIEW dataset for comparative studies, click here. Under Construction.

Bashir Al-Diri, Andrew Hunter, David Steel, Maged Habib, Taghread Hudaib and Simon Berry, (2008), “REVIEW - A Reference Data Set for Retinal Vessel Profiles”, the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 20-24/ 2008.

Bashir Al-Diri, Andrew Hunter, David Steel, (2010), “Accurate Methods for Manually Marking Retinal Vessel Widths”, the 12th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing – MEDICON 2010, May 27-30, 2010, Porto Carras, Chalkidiki, Greece.

Retinal Image Computing & Understanding