Table 6.

Performance comparison of vessel segmentation methods (STARE images)

Sr. no.	Methods	Average accuracy	Sensitivity	Specificity
1	2nd human observer	0.9348	0.8951	0.9384
2	Hoover et al. [26]	0.9267	0.6751	0.9567
3	Xiaoyi and Mojon [27]	0.9009	NA	NA
4	Staal et al. [8]	0.9516	0.6970	0.9810
5	Soares et al. [16]	0.9478	0.7197	0.9747
6	Mendonca and Campilho [9]	0.9440	0.6996	0.9730
7	Fraz et al. [33]	0.9442	0.7311	0.9680
8	Lam et al. [47]	0.9567	NA	NA
9	Ricci and Perfetti [15]	0.9646	NA	NA
10	Proposed method	0.9423	0.7318	0.9660

NA not available