Research Article

Comparative Study of Retinal Vessel Segmentation Based on Global Thresholding Techniques

Table 3

Performance of different segmentation methods on DRIVE database.

Preprocessing method Postprocessing method Average sensitivity Average specificity Average accuracy

CLAHE with average filter using Otsu Morphological opening 0.57309 0.99048 0.95376
Morphological opening and median filter 0.59957 0.98439 0.95054
All techniques combined 0.65349 0.97798 0.94943

CLAHE with Gaussian filter using Otsu Morphological opening 0.56045 0.99247 0.95449
Morphological opening and median filter 0.61246 0.98482 0.95204
All techniques combined 0.67290 0.97651 0.94980

CLAHE with average and Gaussian filters using Otsu Morphological opening 0.57529 0.98889 0.95255
Morphological opening and median filter 0.58221 0.98201 0.94688
All techniques combined 0.64159 0.97172 0.94269

CLAHE with adaptive filter using Otsu Morphological opening 0.53973 0.99087 0.95118
Morphological opening and median filter 0.56335 0.98390 0.94691
All techniques combined 0.61596 0.96773 0.93678

CLAHE with average filter using ISODATA Morphological opening 0.56730 0.99092 0.95366
Morphological opening and median filter 0.59380 0.98495 0.95056
All techniques combined 0.61630 0.98395 0.95162

CLAHE with Gaussian filter using ISODATA Morphological opening 0.60458 0.98892 0.95508
Morphological opening and median filter 0.63350 0.98193 0.95125
All techniques combined 0.67011 0.97695 0.94997

CLAHE with average and Gaussian filters using ISODATA Morphological opening 0.55402 0.99129 0.95286
Morphological opening and median filter 0.58024 0.98247 0.94993
All techniques combined 0.60265 0.98459 0.95104

CLAHE with adaptive filter using ISODATA Morphological opening 0.58487 0.98978 0.95417
Morphological opening and median filter 0.61775 0.98318 0.95104
All techniques combined 0.64348 0.98185 0.95209

Phase congruence with Otsu Morphological opening 0.45610 0.99210 0.94509
Morphological opening and median filter 0.48690 0.98754 0.94364
All techniques combined 0.47232 0.98849 0.94324

Phase congruence with ISODATA Morphological opening 0.51579 0.98872 0.94722
Morphological opening and median filter 0.55410 0.98278 0.94517
All techniques combined 0.53369 0.98459 0.94504

Phase congruence with IDM-based threshold Morphological opening 0.71520 0.96496 0.94302
Morphological opening and median filter 0.74247 0.95461 0.93596
All techniques combined 0.73910 0.95687 0.93772