RSF-Conv: Rotation-and-Scale Equivariant Fourier Parameterized Convolution for Retinal Vessel Segmentation
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| author | Sun, Zihong Wang, Hong Xie, Qi Zheng, Yefeng Meng, Deyu |
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| contents | Retinal vessel segmentation is of great clinical significance for the diagnosis of many eye-related diseases, but it is still a formidable challenge due to the intricate vascular morphology. With the skillful characterization of the translation symmetry existing in retinal vessels, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved great success in retinal vessel segmentation. However, the rotation-and-scale symmetry, as a more widespread image prior in retinal vessels, fails to be characterized by CNNs. Therefore, we propose a rotation-and-scale equivariant Fourier parameterized convolution (RSF-Conv) specifically for retinal vessel segmentation, and provide the corresponding equivariance analysis. As a general module, RSF-Conv can be integrated into existing networks in a plug-and-play manner while significantly reducing the number of parameters. For instance, we replace the traditional convolution filters in U-Net and Iter-Net with RSF-Convs, and faithfully conduct comprehensive experiments. RSF-Conv+U-Net and RSF-Conv+Iter-Net not only have slight advantages under in-domain evaluation, but more importantly, outperform all comparison methods by a significant margin under out-of-domain evaluation. It indicates the remarkable generalization of RSF-Conv, which holds greater practical clinical significance for the prevalent cross-device and cross-hospital challenges in clinical practice. To comprehensively demonstrate the effectiveness of RSF-Conv, we also apply RSF-Conv+U-Net and RSF-Conv+Iter-Net to retinal artery/vein classification and achieve promising performance as well, indicating its clinical application potential. |
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| spellingShingle | RSF-Conv: Rotation-and-Scale Equivariant Fourier Parameterized Convolution for Retinal Vessel Segmentation Sun, Zihong Wang, Hong Xie, Qi Zheng, Yefeng Meng, Deyu Image and Video Processing Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Machine Learning Retinal vessel segmentation is of great clinical significance for the diagnosis of many eye-related diseases, but it is still a formidable challenge due to the intricate vascular morphology. With the skillful characterization of the translation symmetry existing in retinal vessels, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved great success in retinal vessel segmentation. However, the rotation-and-scale symmetry, as a more widespread image prior in retinal vessels, fails to be characterized by CNNs. Therefore, we propose a rotation-and-scale equivariant Fourier parameterized convolution (RSF-Conv) specifically for retinal vessel segmentation, and provide the corresponding equivariance analysis. As a general module, RSF-Conv can be integrated into existing networks in a plug-and-play manner while significantly reducing the number of parameters. For instance, we replace the traditional convolution filters in U-Net and Iter-Net with RSF-Convs, and faithfully conduct comprehensive experiments. RSF-Conv+U-Net and RSF-Conv+Iter-Net not only have slight advantages under in-domain evaluation, but more importantly, outperform all comparison methods by a significant margin under out-of-domain evaluation. It indicates the remarkable generalization of RSF-Conv, which holds greater practical clinical significance for the prevalent cross-device and cross-hospital challenges in clinical practice. To comprehensively demonstrate the effectiveness of RSF-Conv, we also apply RSF-Conv+U-Net and RSF-Conv+Iter-Net to retinal artery/vein classification and achieve promising performance as well, indicating its clinical application potential. |
| title | RSF-Conv: Rotation-and-Scale Equivariant Fourier Parameterized Convolution for Retinal Vessel Segmentation |
| topic | Image and Video Processing Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15638 |