A Hierarchical Image Matting Model for Blood Vessel Segmentation in Fundus Images

@article{Fan2017AHI,
  title={A Hierarchical Image Matting Model for Blood Vessel Segmentation in Fundus Images},
  author={Zhun Fan and Jiewei Lu and Caimin Wei and Han Huang and Xinye Cai and Xinjian Chen},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Image Processing},
  year={2017},
  volume={28},
  pages={2367-2377}
}
In this paper, a hierarchical image matting model is proposed to extract blood vessels from fundus images. More specifically, a hierarchical strategy is integrated into the image matting model for blood vessel segmentation. Normally, the matting models require a user specified <italic>trimap</italic>, which separates the input image into three regions: the foreground, background, and unknown regions. However, creating a user specified trimap is laborious for vessel segmentation tasks. In this… 
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