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Article type: Research Article
Authors: MA, Sreemaa | A, Jayachandranb; * | Perumal T, Sudarson Ramac
Affiliations: [a] Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Arunachala College of Engineering for Women, Manavilai, India | [b] Department of Computer Science and Engineering, PSN College of Engineering and Technology, Tirunelveli, India | [c] Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Rohini College of Engineering and Technology, Nagercoil, India
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Jayachandran A, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, PSN College of Engineering and Technology, Tirunelveli, India. E-mail: [email protected]. ORCID: 0000-0002-8185-3237.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Segmentation of retinal fragments like blood vessels, Optic Disc (OD), and Optic Cup (OC) enables the early detection of different retinal pathologies like Diabetic Retinopathy (DR), Glaucoma, etc. OBJECTIVE: Accurate segmentation of OD remains challenging due to blurred boundaries, vessel occlusion, and other distractions and limitations. These days, deep learning is rapidly progressing in the segmentation of image pixels, and a number of network models have been proposed for end-to-end image segmentation. However, there are still certain limitations, such as limited ability to represent context, inadequate feature processing, limited receptive field, etc., which lead to the loss of local details and blurred boundaries. METHODS: A multi-dimensional dense attention network, or MDDA-Net, is proposed for pixel-wise segmentation of OD in retinal images in order to address the aforementioned issues and produce more thorough and accurate segmentation results. In order to acquire powerful contexts when faced with limited context representation capabilities, a dense attention block is recommended. A triple-attention (TA) block is introduced in order to better extract the relationship between pixels and obtain more comprehensive information, with the goal of addressing the insufficient feature processing. In the meantime, a multi-scale context fusion (MCF) is suggested for acquiring the multi-scale contexts through context improvement. RESULTS: Specifically, we provide a thorough assessment of the suggested approach on three difficult datasets. In the MESSIDOR and ORIGA data sets, the suggested MDDA-NET approach obtains accuracy levels of 99.28% and 98.95%, respectively. CONCLUSION: The experimental results show that the MDDA-Net can obtain better performance than state-of-the-art deep learning models under the same environmental conditions.
Keywords: Deep learning, dense prediction networks, fundus images, segmentation
DOI: 10.3233/THC-230310
Journal: Technology and Health Care, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 3829-3846, 2024
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