Optic disc segmentation using graph cut technique

Abstract

An optic disc Segmentation is a very important role for retinal image study. Retinal image segmentation supports diagnosis in modern ophthalmology. Diagnosis of several illnesses like diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and hypertension is achieved using morphology of the blood vessel and the optic disc. The paper presents a method which extracts retina vascular tree using graph cut method. Optic disc location detected by using blood vessel segmentation. “Markov Random Field” algorithm is applied to optic disc for segmentation. “Markov Random Field (MRF)” reconstructs image using segmenting through reducing vessels from the optic disc region.