Research Article

Automatic Detection of Blood Vessels in Retinal Images for Diabetic Retinopathy Diagnosis

Table 5

Performance comparisons on DRIVE dataset.

AlgorithmSensitivity (%)Specificity (%)Accuracy (%)

Proposed method93.9998.3798.08
Fraz et al. [7] (2012)74.0698.0794.8
Xiao et al. [8] (2013)75.1397.9295.29
Manoj et al. [9] (2013)94.2998.7596.23
Bansal and Dutta [10] (2013)86.5398.3397.28
Marín et al. [5] (2011)70.6798.0194.52
Mendonça and Campilho [6] (2006)96.33
Palomera-Pérez et al. [4] (2010)92.5
Budai et al. [11] (2013)64.4098.7095.72

The methodologies compared with proposed method did not consider OD elimination before vessel segmentation.