Retinal Image Denoising via Bilateral Filter with a Spatial Kernel of Optimally Oriented Line Spread Function

Table 4

Quantitative results of vessel connection.

Image in Figure 7	Se	Sp	Acc	AUC	DC
(b) Disconnected thin vessel	0.999	0.758	0.993	0.878	0.996
(c) Result of BLF	0.982	0.994	0.999	0.988	0.976
(d) Result of our method	0.993	0.997	0.992	0.995	0.981
(f) Disconnected thick vessel	0.991	0.931	0.985	0.961	0.992
(g) Result of BLF	0.992	0.978	0.993	0.985	0.976
(h) Result of our method	0.998	0.996	0.985	0.997	0.997