Review Article

A Review on the Extraction of Quantitative Retinal Microvascular Image Feature

Table 2

Accuracy and applied method of a recently proposed algorithm for measuring the vessel diameter [20, 21, 2326, 5254].

NoPaper Info 
(Authors)
Contribution Feature Method Database REVIEWResults
Accuracy
Success rate% Measurement 
(in pixels)
Difference 
(in pixels)
µσµσ


1
[23]Algorithm for retinal vessel boundary detection and width measurementRetinal blood vessel width Graph-Theoretic methodHRIS 90 segments 2368 vessel profile
VDIS, 79 segments, 2249 vessel profile

2 [52]A method for measuring the retinal vessels widths and computing AVR in REVIEW database.Retinal blood vessel widthThis algorithm is based on deformable models and integrated into an AVR computing frameworkREVIEW 5066 vessel profiles
 KPIS, SIRIUS
  G
  L
  J
  I
 CLRIS, SIRIUS
  G
  L
  J
  I
 VDIS, SIRIUS
  G
  L
  J
  I
 HRIS, SIRIUS
  G
  L
  J
  I

3 [53]An automated vessel diameter measurement techniqueRetinal blood vessel widthUnsupervised Linear Discriminant Analysis Diameter MeasurementREVIEW, 5066 Profiles
KPIS
CLRIS
VDIS
HRIS
4 [54]An algorithm for estimating the width of a retinal blood vessel in fundus camera images.Retinal blood vessel widthSupervised learning is performed by bagged decision trees and an extended multiresolution Hermite modelREVIEW, 5066 Profiles
KPIS
CLRIS
VDIS
HRIS
Tayside data set, 38 fundus images


5
[24]An algorithm to measure the width of the retinal vessels and find the vessels boundary in fundus photographsRetinal blood vessel widthGraph-based segmentation methodREVIEW, 5066 profiles
KPIS
CLRIS
VDIS
HRIS

  6 [20]A novel method for measuring the blood vessel diameter in the retinal image.Retinal blood vessel widthThresholding segmentation and thinning step, followed by Douglas-Peucker algorithm. active contours and Heron’s FormulaSTARE Database
HRF Database

7 [21]An algorithm for the segmentation and measurement of retinal vessels width, the ESP algorithm.Retinal blood vessel widthActive contour modelREVIEW, 5066 profiles
KPIS
CLRIS
VDIS
HRIS

8 [26]An adaptive model to measure the width of retinal vessels in fundus photographs.Retinal blood vessel widthAdaptive Higuchi’s DimensionREVIEW, 5066 profilesPrecisionAccuracy
KPIS1000.450.72
CLRIS98.001.560.33
VDIS97.81.140.45
HRIS99.40.650.24

9 [25]A technique of retinal vessel diameter measurement.Retinal blood vessel widthMulti-Step Regression Method (Higher order Gaussian modeling)REVIEWPrecisionAccuracy
CLRIS1.691
VDIS1.182