“…blood vessel detection from medical images, is also a well-known issue in computer vision (Chai et al, 2013). Chai et al (2013) distinguished three types of approach: pixel-based (Stoica et al, 2004;Mnih and Hinton, 2010;Montoya-Zegarra et al, 2014), line-based (Lacoste et al, 2005), and graph-based (Gerke et al, 2004;Turetken et al, 2012;Ünsalan and Sirmacek, 2012;Turetken et al, 2013;Wegner et al, 2013). A road extraction system often involves several different types of techniques.…”