Real-Time Retinal Vessel Segmentation on High-Resolution Fundus Images Using Laplacian Pyramids

In ophthalmology, fundus images are commonly used to examine the human eye. The image data shows among others the capillary system of the retina. Recognising alternations in the retinal blood vessels is pivotal to diagnosing certain diseases. The visual inspection of those fundus images is a time-consuming process and a challenging task which has to be done by medical experts. Furthermore, rapid advances in medical imaging allow for generating fundus images of increased quality and resolution. Therefore, the support by computers for the analysis and evaluation of complex fundus image information is growing in importance and there is a corresponding need for fast and efficient algorithms.

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