Abstract

AbstractDiabetic retinopathy (DR) accounts in eye‐related disorders due to accumulated damage to small retinal blood vessels. Automated diagnostic systems are effective in early detection and diagnosis of severe eye complications by assisting the ophthalmologists. Deep learning‐based techniques have emerged as an advancement over conventional techniques based on hand‐crafted features. The authors have proposed a Quadrant‐based automated DR grading system in this work using Inception‐V3 deep neural network to extract small lesions present in retinal fundus images. The grading efficiency of the proposed architecture is improved utilizing image enhancement and optical disc removal pipeline along with data augmentation stage. The proposed system yields accuracy of 93.33% with minimized cross‐entropy loss of 0.291. Capability of proposed system is demonstrated experimentally to provide efficient DR diagnosis. The diagnosis ability of the proposed architecture is demonstrated by state‐of‐the‐art comparison with other mainstream convolution neural network models and a maximum improvement of 14.33% is observed.

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