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Multiscale guided attention network for optic disc segmentation of retinal images
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine update, Vol.7, 100180
2025
Abstract
Optic disc (OD) segmentation from retinal images is crucial for diagnosing, assessing, and tracking the progression of several sight-threatening diseases. This paper presents a deep machine-learning method for semantically segmenting OD from retinal images. The method is named multiscale guided attention network (MSGANet-OD), comprising encoders for extracting multiscale features and decoders for constructing segmentation maps from the extracted features. The decoder also includes a guided attention module that incorporates features related to structural, contextual, and illumination information to segment OD. A custom loss function is proposed to retain the optic disc's geometrical shape (i.e., elliptical) constraint and to alleviate the blood vessels' influence in the overlapping region between the OD and vessels. MSGANet-OD was trained and tested on an in-house clinical color retinal image dataset captured during ophthalmodynamometry as well as on several publicly available color fundus image datasets, e.g., DRISHTI-GS, RIM-ONE-r3, and REFUGE1. Experimental results show that MSGANet-OD achieved superior OD segmentation performance from ophthalmodynamometry images compared to widely used segmentation methods. Our method also achieved competitive results compared to state-of-the-art OD segmentation methods on public datasets. The proposed method can be used in automated systems to quantitatively assess optic nerve head abnormalities (e.g., glaucoma, optic disc neuropathy) and vascular changes in the OD region.
Details
- Title
- Multiscale guided attention network for optic disc segmentation of retinal images
- Authors/Creators
- A Z M Ehtesham Chowdhury - Murdoch UniversityAndrew Mehnert - Lions Eye InstituteGraham MannWilliam H. Morgan - Lions Eye InstituteFerdous Sohel - Murdoch University, Centre for Crop and Food Innovation
- Publication Details
- Computer methods and programs in biomedicine update, Vol.7, 100180
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V.
- Identifiers
- 991005732477307891
- Copyright
- © 2025 Published by Elsevier B.V.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Centre for Crop and Food Innovation; School of Information Technology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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