Research Article

Bayesian Method with Spatial Constraint for Retinal Vessel Segmentation

Table 2

Performance of vessel segmentation methods (STARE images).

Method Average accuracy Sensitivity Specificity

Staal et al. [2] 0.9442 0.7194 0.9773
Soares et al. [6] 0.9454 0.7212 0.9730
Hoover et al. [9] 0.9267 0.6751 0.9567
Yin et al. [12] 0.9413 0.7249 0.9666
Fraz et al. [15] 0.9442 0.7311 0.9680
Mendonça and Campilho [18] 0.9440 0.6996 0.9730
Martinez-Perez et al. [21] 0.9410 0.7506 0.9569
Martinez-Perez et al. [22] 0.9240 0.7790 0.9409
Zhang et al. [30] 0.9087 0.7373 0.9736
Proposed Method 0.9476 0.7147 0.9735