The paper presents a two‑pipeline framework for retinal fundus analysis that combines four‑class disease classification with vessel segmentation. It fine‑tunes eight ImageNet‑pretrained CNNs on the FIVES dataset, applies five gradient‑based explanation methods to assess model interpretability, and benchmarks ten U‑Net variants—including transformer‑based and attention‑enhanced architectures—on the FIVES and DRIVE datasets. The best classification results come from ResNet101 (94.17% accuracy), while the strongest segmentation performance is achieved by Attention U‑Net with a ResNet101V2 backbone, improving DRIVE IoU from 60.80% to 64.83%.
By Fatema Tuj Johora Faria, Mukaffi Bin Moin, Pronay Debnath, Asif Iftekher Fahim, Faisal Muhammad Shah
The study evaluates fundus-specific foundation models (FM) for detecting diabetic macular edema (DME) in retinal images. It compares two popular FM—RETFound and FLAIR—against a lightweight EfficientNet-B0 backbone across multiple datasets (IDRiD, MESSIDOR-2, and OCT-and-Eye-FundusImages). Results indicate that FM do not consistently outperform fine‑tuned CNNs; EfficientNet-B0 often matches or exceeds FM performance, with FLAIR being the most competitive FM.
By Franco Javier Arellano, Jos\'e Ignacio Orlando
CEM‑TUDASR is a lightweight, unsupervised Transformer-based super‑resolution framework designed to enhance low‑resolution images from Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE). It uses a domain‑adaptive degradation network to generate realistic WCE‑like low‑resolution images from high‑resolution conventional endoscopy data, enabling effective unpaired learning. The model incorporates Deep Attention Blocks and a Fusion Attention Block to capture both global context and fine local details, achieving superior performance on WCE datasets and demonstrating cross‑domain adaptability to retinal images, all while keeping the parameter count and computational load low.
arXiv:2609.06699v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Glaucoma is a progressive optic neuropathy characterized by irreversible damage to the optic nerve, making timely diagnosis critical to prevent perma...
By Abdullah Al Shafi, Nishat Sadaf Lira, Abrar Hasan, Kazi Saeed Alam, Swapnil Kundu Argha
CEM‑TUDASR is a lightweight, unsupervised Transformer‑based super‑resolution framework designed for Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) images. It uses a domain‑adaptive degradation network to synthesize realistic low‑resolution WCE images from high‑resolution conventional endoscopy data, enabling unpaired training. The SR generator incorporates Deep Attention Blocks and a Fusion Attention Block to preserve both global context and fine local structures, achieving superior no‑reference quality metrics and improved restoration of mucosal textures, vascular patterns, and anatomical details while remaining computationally efficient.
By Anjali Sarvaiya, Jay Kadel, Kishor Upla, Kiran Raja
arXiv:2509.25549v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Choroidal nevi are common benign pigmented lesions in the eye, with a small risk of transforming into melanoma. Early detection is critical t...
By Mohammadmahdi Eshragh, Emad A. Mohammed, Behrouz Far, Ezekiel Weis, Carol L Shields, Sandor R Ferenczy, Trafford Crump
The paper introduces an extension of the Decoupled Vision Transformer (DC‑ViT) to handle multi‑channel imaging (MCI) data, where each channel carries a distinct semantic signal. By tokenizing each channel separately and then decoupling intra‑channel from inter‑channel updates, the model preserves channel‑specific features. The authors further enable independent per‑channel masking by solving a linear assignment between retained patches, allowing masked training without restricting visible tokens. Experiments on fluorescence microscopy, imaging mass cytometry, and satellite imaging datasets demonstrate that this approach outperforms the strongest Multi‑Channel Vision Transformer baselines on both classification and dense‑prediction tasks.
By Umar Marikkar, Sameed Husain, Muhammad Awais, Sara Atito
OptiModNet is a lightweight UNet‑Transformer hybrid designed for optic disc and cup segmentation. It incorporates grouped‑query and channel attention across multiple stages, along with an Aggregated Pyramid Loss to improve gradient flow and structural consistency. Evaluated on the REFUGE2 dataset, it surpasses existing methods by over 2.5 % while using only 3.73 GFLOPs and 1.93 M parameters.
By Soumili Ghosh, Debapriya Roy, Aryan Das, Bikash Santra
arXiv:2607. 21068v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated detection of vision impairing retina-based ocular conditions from fundus images is important for early screening, timely referral and reducing dependency on specialist-only assessment, for which neural network-based deep learning (DL) models have been widely utilized.
By Kritanu Chattopadhyay, Sayanjit Singha Roy, Soumya Chatterjee
arXiv:2608. 08977v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work focuses on the impact and detection of clear contact lenses in the context of iris recognition.
By Parisa Farmanifard, Arun Ross
arXiv:2608. 09752v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retinal fundus images frequently exhibit multiple co-occurring pathologies, yet standard deep learning classifiers apply static, identical computation to every image regardless of the underlying disease distribution.
By Nagur Shareef Shaik, Jeongwoo Park, Yeong-Jin Kim, Jaeuk Jung, Hyunjung Oh, Dong Hye Ye
arXiv:2608.24723v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Retinal fundus photography is widely used for screening and monitoring ocular diseases, but many modern classification pipelines rely on deep latent re...
By Xiaoyan Li, Shixin Xu, Arvind Gupta, Huaxiong Huang