Research Article

Automatic Extraction of Blood Vessels in the Retinal Vascular Tree Using Multiscale Medialness

Table 6

Comparison of vessel segmentation results on STARE project database [33].

Method MAA TPR FPR

2nd human observer 0.93540.8949 0.0610
Hoover [33, 35] 0.92670.6751 0.0433
Mendonça (green) [21] 0.9440 0.6996 0.0270
Staal [25] 0.9516 0.6970 0.0190
Soares [44] 0.94800.7165 0.0252
Matched filter [13] 0.9384 0.6134 0.0245
Martinez-Perez [45] 0.9410 0.7506 0.0431
MF-FDOG [14] 0.9484 0.7177 0.0247
Proposed method 0.9402 0.6145 0.0162