Abstract
In clinical screening, accurate diagnosis of various diseases relies on the extraction of blood vessels from fundus images. However, clinical fundus images often suffer from uneven illumination, blur, and artifacts caused by equipment or environmental factors. In this paper, we propose a unified framework called ESDiff to address these challenges by integrating retinal image enhancement and vessel segmentation. Specifically, we introduce a novel diffusion model-based framework for image enhancement, incorporating mask refinement as an auxiliary task via a vessel mask-aware diffusion model. Furthermore, we utilize low-quality retinal fundus images and their corresponding illumination maps as inputs to the modified UNet to obtain degradation factors that effectively preserve pathological features and pertinent information. This approach enhances the intermediate results within the iterative process of the diffusion model. Extensive experiments on publicly available fundus retinal datasets (i.e. DRIVE, STARE, CHASE_DB1 and EyeQ) demonstrate the effectiveness of ESDiff compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Funder
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province
Taishan Scholar Foundation of Shandong Province
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Biotechnology
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