Feature preserving mesh network for semantic segmentation of retinal vasculature to support ophthalmic disease analysis.

Introduction: Ophthalmic diseases are approaching an alarming count across the globe. Typically, ophthalmologists depend on manual methods for the analysis of different ophthalmic diseases such as glaucoma, Sickle cell retinopathy (SCR), diabetic retinopathy, and hypertensive retinopathy. All these manual assessments are not reliable, time-consuming, tedious, and prone to error.