Three-way U-Net method for accurately segmenting uncertain boundary of retinal blood vessel
US12131474B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | May 24, 2023 |
| Grant date | Oct 29, 2024 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 24, 2043 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T2207/30101
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The present disclosure is a three-way U-Net method for accurately segmenting an uncertain boundary of a retinal blood vessel, includes: describing an uncertainty of a blood vessel boundary label, constructing an upper bound and a lower bound of the uncertain boundary based on the dilation operator and the erosion operator respectively to obtain a maximum value and a minimum value for the blood vessel boundary, and mapping the boundary with uncertain information into one range; combining an uncertainty representation of the boundary with a loss function, and designing a three-way loss function; training network parameters by adopting a stochastic gradient descent algorithm and utilizing a total loss of the three-way loss function; and designing and implements an auxiliary diagnosis application system for intelligently segmenting the retinal blood vessel with functions of the fundus data acquisition, the intelligent accurate segmentation and the auxiliary diagnosis for the retinal blood vessel.
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