Research Article

Robust Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation Based on Reinforcement Local Descriptions

Table 3

Segmentation results of different methods on DRIVE database.

TypeMethodsYearSENSPEACC

Supervised methods2nd human observer0.77960.97170.9470
Staal et al. [15]2004N.AN.A0.9442
Soares et al. [16]2006N.AN.A0.9466
Ricci and Perfetti [17]2007N.AN.A0.9563
Welikala et al. [24]20140.7370.95210.942
Nguyen et al. [25]20130.73210.94870.9407
Lupascu et al. [19]20100.7200N.A0.9597
Marín et al. [20]20110.70670.98010.9452
You et al. [8]20110.74100.97510.9434
Fraz et al. [21]20120.74060.98070.9480
Li et al. [22]20160.75690.98160.9527
Proposed method20160.76800.98270.9630

Unsupervised methodsMendonça and Campilho [34]20060.73440.97640.9452
Alonso-Montes et al. [28]2008N.AN.A0.9185
Lam et al. [9]2010N.AN.A0.9472
Delibasis et al. [35]2010N.AN.A0.9407
Qian Zhao et al. [13]20140.73540.97890.9477