Digital Image processing Project DRAFT

Project- Tortuous Blood Vessel Detection using DIP

Nitin Kumar

import cv2
import numpy as np
from google.colab.patches import cv2_imshow # Import cv2_imshow for
displaying images in Colab

# Function to apply Gaussian blur and Canny edge detection

def preprocess_image(image):
gray = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
blurred = cv2.GaussianBlur(gray, (5, 5), 0)
edges = cv2.Canny(blurred, 50, 150)
return edges

# Function to mask the region of interest

def region_of_interest(image, vertices):
mask = np.zeros_like(image)
cv2.fillPoly(mask, vertices, 255)
masked_image = cv2.bitwise_and(image, mask)
return masked_image

# Function to detect and draw lanes

def detect_lanes(image):
height, width = image.shape
region_of_interest_vertices = [
(0, height),
(width / 2, height / 2),
(width, height),
]

cropped_image = region_of_interest(image,
np.array([region_of_interest_vertices], np.int32))

lines = cv2.HoughLinesP(cropped_image, 1, np.pi / 180,

threshold=50, minLineLength=50, maxLineGap=50)

if lines is not None:

for line in lines:
x1, y1, x2, y2 = line[0]
cv2.line(image, (x1, y1), (x2, y2), (0, 0, 255), 3)

return image

# Read the image or video frame

image = cv2.imread('/content/FFa-photography-of-both-eyes-showing-
obviously-tortuous-and-dilated-retinal-veins-Note.png') # Replace with
your image file path

# Preprocess the image

edges = preprocess_image(image)

# Detect lanes
lane_image = detect_lanes(edges)

# Display the result in Colab

cv2_imshow(lane_image)

Tortuous Blood vessel image given to the code to process.