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

Table 6

Performance comparisons in STARE dataset.

Algorithm	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)	Accuracy (%)
Proposed method	93.60	98.96	95.94
Fraz et al. [7] (2012)	72.62	97.64	95.11
Xiao et al. [8] (2013)	71.47	97.35	94.76
Manoj et al. [9] (2013)	93.14	98.84	95.83
Marín et al. [5] (2011)	69.44	98.19	95.26
Mendonça and Campilho [6] (2006)	⋯	⋯	95.79
Palomera-Pérez et al. [4] (2010)	⋯	⋯	92.6
Budai et al. [11] (2013)	58.00	98.20	93.86

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