Research Article

Automatic Retinal Vessel Segmentation Based on an Improved U-Net Approach

Table 5

Performance comparison of different methods for the STARE fundus database.

MethodAlgorithmACCTPRTNR

Unsupervised methodZhang et al. [46]0.95540.77910.9758
Hoover et al. [13]0.92640.67470.9565
Mendonça and Campilho[8]0.94400.69960.9730
Jiang and Mojon [39]0.9009
You et al. [44]0.94970.7260
Zhao et al. [47]0.95600.78000.9780

Supervised methodFraz et al. [5]0.95340.75480.9763
Lin et al. [27]0.96030.7423
Fu et al. [26]0.95450.7140
Niemeijer et al. [7]0.95340.75480.9763
Soares et al. [48]0.94800.72070.9747
Staal et al. [49]0.9516
Marin et al. [18]0.95260.69440.9819
GAN [51]0.96470.79400.9869
Wang et al. [20]0.98130.81040.9791
Khowaja et al. [52]0.97510.82390.9749
Our algorithm0.96830.60320.9967