Abstract
Delayed length of time of the diabetes may influence the tiny blood vessels of the retina bringing about Diabetic Retinopathy (DR). It is one of the major root causes of the blindness across the globe. Routine eye screening of patients with diabetes serves to discover DR at the early stage. The conventional visual assessment protocol is time consuming and laborious. Hence, the computer aided system for DR detection can reduce the burden of the ophthalmologist and improve the accuracy. In this work, we have proposed an automatic method for screening exudates based on image processing methods which utilized color component, morphology and intensity in retinal digital fundus images. The retinal fundus image of the affected eye was recorded with a fundus camera (Visupac, CARL-ZEISS FF 450 plus) for 60 south Indian women. For each image the ground truth result was collected from two glaucoma experts with more than 10 years of experience. Then the quantitative evaluation of the proposed algorithm has been carried out using these ground truth results. We achieved the highest segmentation accuracy of 93%, F-score of 88.2%, precession and recall of 93.1 and 89.3% respectively when the ground truth results were considered as standard. The extracted morphological parameters exhibited significant differences between normal and DR groups at p
Highlights
The rapid growth of diabetes is one of the greatest challenges of the existing health services department
The Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is damage to the retina initiated by problems of diabetes, which can lead to loss of vision or blindness
Out of the 60 studied women, 43% (26/60, mean ± SD age = 53.2±8.4 years) were belongs to normal group and 57% (34/60, mean ± SD age = 57.2±11.4 years) were belongs to DR group based on the ground truth classification
Summary
About 40% of human subjects with diabetes have at least of mild signs of Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) (Nayak et al, 2008). The DR is damage to the retina initiated by problems of diabetes, which can lead to loss of vision or blindness. It could be a mute illness; it should merely be recognized by the patient once the progressions inside the retina have advanced to the level wherever treatment is difficult or much complicated (Kinyoun et al, 1989; Bresnick et al, 2001). Macular edema is the increase of fluid called exudates in macula and which is the main cause of vision loss and its prevalence is set to continue rising.
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