scholarly journals Survey on Convolutional Neural Network Based Efficient Automated Detection of Micro Aneurysm in Diabetic Retinopathy

Author(s):  
S. Karthika ◽  
Sandra Johnson

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is that the most typical explanation for visual disorder of the attention depends upon polygenic disorder. For this reason, early detection of diabetic retinopathy is of crucial importance. The primary sign of diabetic retinopathy within the membrane is that the presence of the micro aneurysms (MAs) that cause due to injury within the membrane as a long abnormality impact results in diabetic mellitus. Despite many makes an attempt, automated detection of micro aneurysm from digital body structure pictures still remains to be associate open downside. Early identification of the micro aneurysms (MAs) helps us to cut back and forestall diabetic retinopathy at the first stage. Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) could be a complication of polygenic disorder and a number one explanation for visual disorder within the world. It happens once polygenic disorder damages the little blood vessels within the membrane. If the blood vessels within the membrane get harm they develop a balloon like swelling referred to as micro aneurysms. The detection of micro aneurysms (MAs) in color body structure pictures remains associate open issue within the medical image process because of the low availableness of reliability. The most two sorts of diabetic retinopathy are Non-Proliferate Diabetic Retinopathy (NPDR) and Proliferate Diabetic Retinopathy (PDR). Picture analysis by trained people, which may be an awfully pricey and time intense task because of the massive diabetic population.

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Zhou ◽  
Chengdong Wu ◽  
Dali Chen ◽  
Zhenzhu Wang ◽  
Yugen Yi ◽  
...  

Red lesions can be regarded as one of the earliest lesions in diabetic retinopathy (DR) and automatic detection of red lesions plays a critical role in diabetic retinopathy diagnosis. In this paper, a novel superpixel Multichannel Multifeature (MCMF) classification approach is proposed for red lesion detection. In this paper, firstly, a new candidate extraction method based on superpixel is proposed. Then, these candidates are characterized by multichannel features, as well as the contextual feature. Next, FDA classifier is introduced to classify the red lesions among the candidates. Finally, a postprocessing technique based on multiscale blood vessels detection is modified for removing nonlesions appearing as red. Experiments on publicly available DiaretDB1 database are conducted to verify the effectiveness of our proposed method.


Author(s):  
Muhammad Nadeem Ashraf ◽  
Muhammad Hussain ◽  
Zulfiqar Habib

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a major cause of blindness in diabetic patients. The increasing population of diabetic patients and difficulty to diagnose it at an early stage are limiting the screening capabilities of manual diagnosis by ophthalmologists. Color fundus images are widely used to detect DR lesions due to their comfortable, cost-effective and non-invasive acquisition procedure. Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) of DR based on these images can assist ophthalmologists and help in saving many sight years of diabetic patients. In a CAD system, preprocessing is a crucial phase, which significantly affects its performance. Commonly used preprocessing operations are the enhancement of poor contrast, balancing the illumination imbalance due to the spherical shape of a retina, noise reduction, image resizing to support multi-resolution, color normalization, extraction of a field of view (FOV), etc. Also, the presence of blood vessels and optic discs makes the lesion detection more challenging because these two artifacts exhibit specific attributes, which are similar to those of DR lesions. Preprocessing operations can be broadly divided into three categories: 1) fixing the native defects, 2) segmentation of blood vessels, and 3) localization and segmentation of optic discs. This paper presents a review of the state-of-the-art preprocessing techniques related to three categories of operations, highlighting their significant aspects and limitations. The survey is concluded with the most effective preprocessing methods, which have been shown to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the CAD systems.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S11) ◽  
pp. 3637-3640

Retinal vessels ID means to isolate the distinctive retinal configuration issues, either wide or restricted from fundus picture foundation, for example, optic circle, macula, and unusual sores. Retinal vessels recognizable proof investigations are drawing in increasingly more consideration today because of pivotal data contained in structure which is helpful for the identification and analysis of an assortment of retinal pathologies included yet not restricted to: Diabetic Retinopathy (DR), glaucoma, hypertension, and Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD). With the advancement of right around two decades, the inventive methodologies applying PC supported systems for portioning retinal vessels winding up increasingly significant and coming nearer. Various kinds of retinal vessels segmentation strategies discussed by using Deep Learning methods. At that point, the pre-processing activities and the best in class strategies for retinal vessels distinguishing proof are presented.


Author(s):  
Megha Deshmukh ◽  
Vineeta Saxena Nigam

Diabetic Retinopathy is a diabetic disease that directly affects the vision that causes damaged blood vessels at the back end of the eyes. It a complicated disease that cannot be recognized from normal eyes; a fundus imaging can reflect the impairments over the retina that causes partial or complete blindness that cannot be cured. It is mandatory for a routine examination that may lead to prevent from complete blindness because it can be prevented from current damaged blood vessels but it cannot be revert or treated. In the field of image processing; various diseases can be diagnosed automatically that saves humans life along with easiness for medical professionals. If a person pertains diabetes for a long time may have highest possibility for diabetic retinopathy. Here, the system has been proposed that can diagnose this disease with high level of accuracy with minimal false alarm rate. System uses Prewitt Edge Detection and Color Mapping techniques for recognizing diabetic retinopathy symptoms or damaged blood vessels from fundus imaging. Prewitt is highly sensitive for extracting impairments along with blood vessels and system is able to mask the unwanted area by using color correction tool.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 5384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuo Wang ◽  
Acner Camino ◽  
Miao Zhang ◽  
Jie Wang ◽  
Thomas S. Hwang ◽  
...  

When pancreas fails to secrete sufficient insulin in the human body, the glucose level in blood either becomes too high or too low. This fluctuation in glucose level affects different body organs such as kidney, brain, and eye. When the complications start appearing in the eyes due to Diabetic Mellitus (DM), it is called Diabetic Retinopathy (DR). DR can be categorized in several classes based on the severity, it can be Microaneurysms (ME), Haemorrhages (HE), Hard and Soft Exudates (EX and SE). DR is a slow start process that starts with very mild symptoms, becomes moderate with the time and results in complete vision loss, if not detected on time. Early-stage detection may greatly bolster in vision loss. However, it is impassable to detect the symptoms of DR with naked eyes. Ophthalmologist harbor to the several approaches and algorithm which makes use of different Machine Learning (ML) methods and classifiers to overcome this disease. The burgeoning insistence of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and their advancement in extracting features from different fundus images captivate several researchers to strive on it. Transfer Learning (TL) techniques help to use pre-trained CNN on a dataset that has finite training data, especially that in under developing countries. In this work, we propose several CNN architecture along with distinct classifiers which segregate the different lesions (ME and EX) in DR images with very eye-catching accuracies.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
R. Bhuvaneswari ◽  
S. Ganesh Vaidyanathan

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is one of the most common diabetic diseases that affect the retina’s blood vessels. Too much of the glucose level in blood leads to blockage of blood vessels in the retina, weakening and damaging the retina. Automatic classification of diabetic retinopathy is a challenging task in medical research. This work proposes a Mixture of Ensemble Classifiers (MEC) to classify and grade diabetic retinopathy images using hierarchical features. We use an ensemble of classifiers such as support vector machine, random forest, and Adaboost classifiers that use the hierarchical feature maps obtained at every pooling layer of a convolutional neural network (CNN) for training. The feature maps are generated by applying the filters to the output of the previous layer. Lastly, we predict the class label or the grade for the given test diabetic retinopathy image by considering the class labels of all the ensembled classifiers. We have tested our approaches on the E-ophtha dataset for the classification task and the Messidor dataset for the grading task. We achieved an accuracy of 95.8% and 96.2% for the E-ophtha and Messidor datasets, respectively. A comparison among prominent convolutional neural network architectures and the proposed approach is provided.


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