This research used images from Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) examination as well as fundus images to localize the optical disc and macular layer of retina. The researchers utilized the OCT and fundus image to interpret the distance between macular center and optic disc in the image. The distance will express the area of macula that can be employed for further research. This distance could recognize the thickness of macula parameters diameter that will be used in localizing process of optic disc and macula. The parameters are the circle radius, the size of window’s filter, the constant value and the size of optic disc element structure as well as the size of macula. The results of this study are expected to improve the accuracy of macula detection that experience the edema.
Retinal image analysis using morphological process and clustering techniquesipij
This paper proposes a method for the Retinal image analysis through efficient detection of exudates and
recognizes the retina to be normal or abnormal. The contrast image is enhanced by curvelet transform.
Hence, morphology operators are applied to the enhanced image in order to find the retinal image ridges.
A simple thresholding method along with opening and closing operation indicates the remained ridges
belonging to vessels. The clustering method is used for effective detection of exudates of eye. Experimental
result proves that the blood vessels and exudates can be effectively detected by applying this method on the
retinal images. Fundus images of the retina were collected from a reputed eye clinic and 110 images were
trained and tested in order to extract the exudates and blood vessels. In this system we use the Probabilistic
Neural Network (PNN) for training and testing the pre-processed images. The results showed the retina is
normal or abnormal thereby analyzing the retinal image efficiently. There is 98% accuracy in the detection
of the exudates in the retina .
Automated Detection of Optic Disc in Retinal FundusImages Using PCAiosrjce
IOSR Journal of Pharmacy and Biological Sciences(IOSR-JPBS) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of Pharmacy and Biological Science. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in Pharmacy and Biological Science. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
Automated histopathological image analysis: a review on ROI extractioniosrjce
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of computer engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in computer technology. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
FUZZY CLUSTERING BASED GLAUCOMA DETECTION USING THE CDR sipij
Glaucoma is a serious eye disease, overtime it will result in gradual blindness. Early detection of thedisease will help prevent against developing a more serious condition. A vertical cup-to-disc ratio which isthe ratio of the vertical diameter of the optic cup to that of the optic disc, of the fundus eye image is an important clinical indicator for glaucoma diagnosis. This paper presents an automated method for the extraction of optic disc and optic cup using Fuzzy C Means clustering technique combined with
thresholding. Using the extracted optic disc and optic cup the vertical cup-to-disc ratio was calculated.
The validity of this new method has been tested on 365 colour fundus images from two different publicly
available databases DRION, DIARATDB0 and images from an ophthalmologist. The result of the method
seems to be promising and useful for clinical work.
Performance analysis of retinal image blood vessel segmentationacijjournal
The retinal image diagnosis
is an important methodology for diabetic retinopathy detection and analysis. in
this paper, the morphological operations and svm classifier are used to detect and segment the blood
vessels from the retinal image. the proposed system consists of three stage
s
-
first is preprocessing of retinal
image to separate the green channel and second stage is retinal image enhancement and third stage is
blood vessel segmentation using morphological operations and svm classifier. the performance of the
proposed system is
analyzed using publicly available dataset
Segmentation of the Blood Vessel and Optic Disc in Retinal Images Using EM Al...iosrjce
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of computer engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in computer technology. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
Detection of Glaucoma using Optic Disk and Incremental Cup Segmentation from ...theijes
Medical researchers, detection of eye disease is very important because it may causes blindness. Glaucoma is one of the diseases that cause blindness. Standard procedure for detection glaucoma is to analysis of optic disk (OD) and cup region in retinal image. In this paper, introduce an automatic OD parameterized technique which is based on segmentation and Incremental Cup segmentation. The incremental cup segmentation method is based on anatomical evidence such as vessel bends at the cup boundary, considered relevant by glaucoma experts. Bends in a vessel are robustly detected using a region of support concept, which automatically selects the right scale for analysis. A multi-stage strategy is applied to derive a reliable subset of vessel bends called r-bends followed by a local 2-D spline fitting to derive the desired cup boundary. The results are compared with existing methods using different retinal images.
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research(IJCER) is an intentional online Journal in English monthly publishing journal. This Journal publish original research work that contributes significantly to further the scientific knowledge in engineering and Technology.
Retinal image analysis using morphological process and clustering techniquesipij
This paper proposes a method for the Retinal image analysis through efficient detection of exudates and
recognizes the retina to be normal or abnormal. The contrast image is enhanced by curvelet transform.
Hence, morphology operators are applied to the enhanced image in order to find the retinal image ridges.
A simple thresholding method along with opening and closing operation indicates the remained ridges
belonging to vessels. The clustering method is used for effective detection of exudates of eye. Experimental
result proves that the blood vessels and exudates can be effectively detected by applying this method on the
retinal images. Fundus images of the retina were collected from a reputed eye clinic and 110 images were
trained and tested in order to extract the exudates and blood vessels. In this system we use the Probabilistic
Neural Network (PNN) for training and testing the pre-processed images. The results showed the retina is
normal or abnormal thereby analyzing the retinal image efficiently. There is 98% accuracy in the detection
of the exudates in the retina .
Automated Detection of Optic Disc in Retinal FundusImages Using PCAiosrjce
IOSR Journal of Pharmacy and Biological Sciences(IOSR-JPBS) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of Pharmacy and Biological Science. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in Pharmacy and Biological Science. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
Automated histopathological image analysis: a review on ROI extractioniosrjce
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of computer engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in computer technology. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
FUZZY CLUSTERING BASED GLAUCOMA DETECTION USING THE CDR sipij
Glaucoma is a serious eye disease, overtime it will result in gradual blindness. Early detection of thedisease will help prevent against developing a more serious condition. A vertical cup-to-disc ratio which isthe ratio of the vertical diameter of the optic cup to that of the optic disc, of the fundus eye image is an important clinical indicator for glaucoma diagnosis. This paper presents an automated method for the extraction of optic disc and optic cup using Fuzzy C Means clustering technique combined with
thresholding. Using the extracted optic disc and optic cup the vertical cup-to-disc ratio was calculated.
The validity of this new method has been tested on 365 colour fundus images from two different publicly
available databases DRION, DIARATDB0 and images from an ophthalmologist. The result of the method
seems to be promising and useful for clinical work.
Performance analysis of retinal image blood vessel segmentationacijjournal
The retinal image diagnosis
is an important methodology for diabetic retinopathy detection and analysis. in
this paper, the morphological operations and svm classifier are used to detect and segment the blood
vessels from the retinal image. the proposed system consists of three stage
s
-
first is preprocessing of retinal
image to separate the green channel and second stage is retinal image enhancement and third stage is
blood vessel segmentation using morphological operations and svm classifier. the performance of the
proposed system is
analyzed using publicly available dataset
Segmentation of the Blood Vessel and Optic Disc in Retinal Images Using EM Al...iosrjce
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of computer engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in computer technology. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
Detection of Glaucoma using Optic Disk and Incremental Cup Segmentation from ...theijes
Medical researchers, detection of eye disease is very important because it may causes blindness. Glaucoma is one of the diseases that cause blindness. Standard procedure for detection glaucoma is to analysis of optic disk (OD) and cup region in retinal image. In this paper, introduce an automatic OD parameterized technique which is based on segmentation and Incremental Cup segmentation. The incremental cup segmentation method is based on anatomical evidence such as vessel bends at the cup boundary, considered relevant by glaucoma experts. Bends in a vessel are robustly detected using a region of support concept, which automatically selects the right scale for analysis. A multi-stage strategy is applied to derive a reliable subset of vessel bends called r-bends followed by a local 2-D spline fitting to derive the desired cup boundary. The results are compared with existing methods using different retinal images.
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research(IJCER) is an intentional online Journal in English monthly publishing journal. This Journal publish original research work that contributes significantly to further the scientific knowledge in engineering and Technology.
AUTOMATED DETECTION OF HARD EXUDATES IN FUNDUS IMAGES USING IMPROVED OTSU THR...IJCSES Journal
One common cause of visual impairment among people of working age in the industrialized countries is
Diabetic Retinopathy (DR). Automatic recognition of hard exudates (EXs) which is one of DR lesions in
fundus images can contribute to the diagnosis and screening of DR.The aim of this paper was to
automatically detect those lesions from fundus images. At first,green channel of each original fundus image
was segmented by improved Otsu thresholding based on minimum inner-cluster variance, and candidate
regions of EXs were obtained. Then, we extracted features of candidate regions and selected a subset which
best discriminates EXs from the retinal background by means of logistic regression (LR). The selected
features were subsequently used as inputs to a SVM to get a final segmentation result of EXs in the image.
Our database was composed of 120 images with variable color, brightness, and quality. 70 of them were
used to train the SVM and the remaining 50 to assess the performance of the method. Using a lesion based
criterion, we achieved a mean sensitivity of 95.05% and a mean positive predictive value of 95.37%. With
an image-based criterion, our approach reached a 100% mean sensitivity, 90.9% mean specificity and
96.0% mean accuracy. Furthermore, the average time cost in processing an image is 8.31 seconds. These
results suggest that the proposed method could be a diagnostic aid for ophthalmologists in the screening
for DR.
Diabetic retinopathy is a disease, caused by alternation in the retinal blood vessels. It is a strong sign of early blindness and if it is not treated may tend to complete blindness and the vision lost once cannot be restored once again. In this paper different image processing techniques are used to differentiate between the normal and the diseased image. The attempt is made to see where the problem actually lies so that proper diagnosis of patient can be done. Pre processing of an image, optic disk detection, Blood vessels extraction, Exudates detection are some of the methods that are applied here. Other algorithms are designed to obtain the desired result. A large number of populations are affected by this disease around the world.
Segmentation of Blood Vessels and Optic Disc in Retinal Imagesresearchinventy
Retinal image analysis is increasingly prominent as a non-intrusive diagnosis method in modern ophthalmology. In this paper, we present a novel method to segment blood vessels and optic disc in the fundus retinal images. The method could be used to support non-intrusive diagnosis in modern ophthalmology since the morphology of the blood vessel and the optic disc is an important indicator for diseases like diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and hypertension. Our method takes as first step the extraction of the retina vascular tree using the graph cut technique. The blood vessel information is then used to estimate the location of the optic disc. The optic disc segmentation is performed using two alternative methods. The Markov Random Field (MRF) image reconstruction method segments the optic disc by removing vessels from the optic disc region and the Compensation Factor method segments the optic disc using prior local intensity knowledge of the vessels. The proposed method is tested on three public data sets, DIARETDB1, DRIVE and STARE. The results and comparison with alternative methods show that our method achieved exceptional performance in segmenting the blood vessel and optic disc.
Glaucoma Screening Test By Segmentation of Optical Disc& Cup Segmentation Usi...IJERA Editor
Glaucoma is one of the most common causes of blindness and it is becoming even more important considering
the ageing society. Because healing of died retinal nerve fibers is not possible early detection and prevention is
essential. Robust, automated mass-screening will help to extend the symptom-free life of affected patients. We
devised a novel, automated, appearance based glaucoma classification system that does not depend on
segmentation based measurements. Our purely data-driven approach is applicable in large-scale screening
examinations. The proposed segmentation methods have been evaluated in a database of 650 images with optic
disc and optic cup boundaries manually marked by trained professionals. Our expected Experimental results
may be average overlapping error of 9.5% and 24.1% in optic disc and optic cup segmentation, respectively.
Retinal Macular Edema Detection Using Optical Coherence Tomography ImagesIOSRJVSP
Macular Edema affects around 20 million people of the world each year. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), a non-invasive eye-imaging modality, is capable of detecting Macular Edema both in its early and advanced stages. In this paper, an algorithm which detects Macular Edema from OCT images has been presented. Initially the images are filtered to de-noise them. Then, the retinal layers - Inner Limiting Membrane (ILM) and Retinal Pigment Epithelium (RPE) are segmented using Graph Theory method. Region splitting is performed on the OCT scan and the thickness between the two layers in the different regions are determined. Area enclosed between the two layers is also estimated. Support Vector Machine, a binary classifier is used to draw a classification between normal and abnormal OCT scans. Region-wise thickness, a few Haralick’s features, area between ILM and RPE and a few wavelet features are used to train the classifier. The classifier yielded an accuracy of 95% and a sensitivity of 100%. Thus, this algorithm can be used by ophthalmologists in early detection of Macular Edema.
Vessels delineation in retinal images using COSFIRE filtersNicola Strisciuglio
George Azzopardi, Nicola Strisciuglio, Mario Vento, Nicolai Petkov - "Trainable COSFIRE filters for vessel delineation with application to retinal images”, Medical Image Analysis, Available Online 3 September 2014, DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2014.08.002
The source code of the B-COSFIRE filters is available at:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/49172-trainable-cosfire-filters-for-vessel-delineation-with-application-to-retinal-images
Automatic detection of optic disc and blood vessels from retinal images using...eSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Automated Diagnosis of Glaucoma using Haralick Texture FeaturesIOSR Journals
Abstract : Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide. It is a disease in which fluid
pressure in the eye increases continuously, damaging the optic nerve and causing vision loss. Computational
decision support systems for the early detection of glaucoma can help prevent this complication. The retinal
optic nerve fibre layer can be assessed using optical coherence tomography, scanning laser polarimetry, and
Heidelberg retina tomography scanning methods. In this paper, we present a novel method for glaucoma
detection using an Haralick Texture Features from digital fundus images. K Nearest Neighbors (KNN)
classifiers are used to perform supervised classification. Our results demonstrate that the Haralick Texture
Features has Database and classification parts, in Database the image has been loaded and Gray Level Cooccurrence
Matrix (GLCM) and thirteen haralick features are combined to extract the image features, performs
better than the other classifiers and correctly identifies the glaucoma images with an accuracy of more than
98%. The impact of training and testing is also studied to improve results. Our proposed novel features are
clinically significant and can be used to detect glaucoma accurately.
Keywords: Glaucoma, Haralick Texture features, KNN Classifiers, Feature Extraction
Evaluating Human Visual Search Performance by Monte Carlo methods and Heurist...Giacomo Veneri
Visual search is an everyday activity that enables
humans to explore the real world. Given the visual input,
during a visual search, it’s required to select some aspects of the input in order to move to the next location. Exploration is guided by two factors: saliency of image (bottom-up) and endogenous mechanism (top-down). These two mechanisms interact to perform an efficient visual search. We developed a stochastic model, the ”break away from fixations” (BAF), to emulate the visual search on a high cognitively demanding task such as a trail making test (TMT). The paper reports a case study providing evidence that human exploration performs an efficient visual search based also on an internal model of regions already explored.
Automatic identification and classification of microaneurysms for detection o...eSAT Journals
Abstract Headlights of vehicles pose a great danger during night driving. The drivers of most vehicles use high, bright beam while driving at night. This causes a discomfort to the person travelling from the opposite direction. He experiences a sudden glare for a short period of time. This is caused due to the high intense headlight beam from the other vehicle coming towards him from the opposite direction. We are expected to dim the headlight to avoid this glare. This glare causes a temporary blindness to a person resulting in road accidents during the night. To avoid such incidents, we have fabricated a prototype of automatic headlight dimmer. This automatically switches the high beam into low beam thus reducing the glare effect by sensing the approaching vehicle. It also eliminates the requirement of manual switching by the driver which is not done at all times. The construction, working and the advantages of this prototype model is discussed in detail in this paper. Keywords: Headlight, automatic, dimmer, control, high beam, low beam, Kelvin (K).
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research(IJCER)ijceronline
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research(IJCER) is an intentional online Journal in English monthly publishing journal. This Journal publish original research work that contributes significantly to further the scientific knowledge in engineering and Technology.
Automatic Detection of Diabetic Maculopathy from Funduas Images Using Image A...Eman Al-dhaher
Diabetic retinopathy is a severe eye disease that affects many diabetic patients. It changes the small blood vessels in the retina resulting in loss of vision. Early detection and diagnosis have been identified as one of the ways to achieve a reduction in the percentage of visual impairment and blindness caused by diabetic retinopathy with emphasis on regular screening for detection and monitoring of this disease.
The work focuses on developing a fundus image analysis system that extracts the fundal features of the retina such as optic disk, macula (i.e., fovea) and exudates lesions (hard and soft exudates), which are the fundamental steps in an automated analyzing system to display and diagnosis diabetic retinopathy.
Bayesain Hypothesis of Selective Attention - Raw 2011 posterGiacomo Veneri
The aim of the study is to understand the process of target averaging during the selection process. We analyzed the probability to select the target after a fixation outside ROIs from the duration of fixations and the distance to the target. We aimed to respond to the question “is it possible to predict the selected area?” . In this study we tested the presence of information in non-ROI fixation data about the occurrence of a target at the next saccade. A classification algorithm was trained to predict the target vs. non-target outcome (dependent variable) of a saccade from summary statistics of fixation data (covariates). We claim that significantly accurate predictions are substantial evidence to support the hypothesis of "presence of information".
Review of methods for diabetic retinopathy detection and severity classificationeSAT Journals
Abstract Diabetic Retinopathy is a serious vascular disorder that might lead to complete blindness. Therefore, the early detection and the treatment are necessary to prevent major vision loss. Though the Manual screening methods are available, they are time consuming and inefficient on a large image database of patients. Moreover, it demands skilled professionals for the diagnosis. Automatic Diabetic Retinopathy diagnosis systems can replace manual methods as they can significantly reduce the manual labor involved in the screening process. Screening conducted over a larger population can become efficient if the system can separate normal and abnormal cases, instead of the manual examination of all images. Therefore, Automatic Retinopathy detection systems have attracted large popularity in the recent times. Automatic retinopathy detection systems employ image processing and computer vision techniques to detect different anomalies associated with retinopathy. This paper reviews various methods of diabetic retinopathy detection and classification into different stages based on severity levels and also, various image databases used for the research purpose are discussed. Keywords— Automatic Diabetic Retinopathy detection, computer vision, Diabetic Retinopathy, image databases, image processing, manual screening
The eye gaze analysis represents a challenging field of
research, since it offers a reproducible method to study the mechanisms of the brain. Eye movements are arguably the most frequent of all human movements and an essential part of human vision: they drive the fovea and consequently, the attention towards regions of interest in space. This enables the visual system to fixate and to process an image or its details with high resolution: act of fixation. This chapter investigates some common techniques and algorithms to study human vision.
AUTOMATED DETECTION OF HARD EXUDATES IN FUNDUS IMAGES USING IMPROVED OTSU THR...IJCSES Journal
One common cause of visual impairment among people of working age in the industrialized countries is
Diabetic Retinopathy (DR). Automatic recognition of hard exudates (EXs) which is one of DR lesions in
fundus images can contribute to the diagnosis and screening of DR.The aim of this paper was to
automatically detect those lesions from fundus images. At first,green channel of each original fundus image
was segmented by improved Otsu thresholding based on minimum inner-cluster variance, and candidate
regions of EXs were obtained. Then, we extracted features of candidate regions and selected a subset which
best discriminates EXs from the retinal background by means of logistic regression (LR). The selected
features were subsequently used as inputs to a SVM to get a final segmentation result of EXs in the image.
Our database was composed of 120 images with variable color, brightness, and quality. 70 of them were
used to train the SVM and the remaining 50 to assess the performance of the method. Using a lesion based
criterion, we achieved a mean sensitivity of 95.05% and a mean positive predictive value of 95.37%. With
an image-based criterion, our approach reached a 100% mean sensitivity, 90.9% mean specificity and
96.0% mean accuracy. Furthermore, the average time cost in processing an image is 8.31 seconds. These
results suggest that the proposed method could be a diagnostic aid for ophthalmologists in the screening
for DR.
Diabetic retinopathy is a disease, caused by alternation in the retinal blood vessels. It is a strong sign of early blindness and if it is not treated may tend to complete blindness and the vision lost once cannot be restored once again. In this paper different image processing techniques are used to differentiate between the normal and the diseased image. The attempt is made to see where the problem actually lies so that proper diagnosis of patient can be done. Pre processing of an image, optic disk detection, Blood vessels extraction, Exudates detection are some of the methods that are applied here. Other algorithms are designed to obtain the desired result. A large number of populations are affected by this disease around the world.
Segmentation of Blood Vessels and Optic Disc in Retinal Imagesresearchinventy
Retinal image analysis is increasingly prominent as a non-intrusive diagnosis method in modern ophthalmology. In this paper, we present a novel method to segment blood vessels and optic disc in the fundus retinal images. The method could be used to support non-intrusive diagnosis in modern ophthalmology since the morphology of the blood vessel and the optic disc is an important indicator for diseases like diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and hypertension. Our method takes as first step the extraction of the retina vascular tree using the graph cut technique. The blood vessel information is then used to estimate the location of the optic disc. The optic disc segmentation is performed using two alternative methods. The Markov Random Field (MRF) image reconstruction method segments the optic disc by removing vessels from the optic disc region and the Compensation Factor method segments the optic disc using prior local intensity knowledge of the vessels. The proposed method is tested on three public data sets, DIARETDB1, DRIVE and STARE. The results and comparison with alternative methods show that our method achieved exceptional performance in segmenting the blood vessel and optic disc.
Glaucoma Screening Test By Segmentation of Optical Disc& Cup Segmentation Usi...IJERA Editor
Glaucoma is one of the most common causes of blindness and it is becoming even more important considering
the ageing society. Because healing of died retinal nerve fibers is not possible early detection and prevention is
essential. Robust, automated mass-screening will help to extend the symptom-free life of affected patients. We
devised a novel, automated, appearance based glaucoma classification system that does not depend on
segmentation based measurements. Our purely data-driven approach is applicable in large-scale screening
examinations. The proposed segmentation methods have been evaluated in a database of 650 images with optic
disc and optic cup boundaries manually marked by trained professionals. Our expected Experimental results
may be average overlapping error of 9.5% and 24.1% in optic disc and optic cup segmentation, respectively.
Retinal Macular Edema Detection Using Optical Coherence Tomography ImagesIOSRJVSP
Macular Edema affects around 20 million people of the world each year. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), a non-invasive eye-imaging modality, is capable of detecting Macular Edema both in its early and advanced stages. In this paper, an algorithm which detects Macular Edema from OCT images has been presented. Initially the images are filtered to de-noise them. Then, the retinal layers - Inner Limiting Membrane (ILM) and Retinal Pigment Epithelium (RPE) are segmented using Graph Theory method. Region splitting is performed on the OCT scan and the thickness between the two layers in the different regions are determined. Area enclosed between the two layers is also estimated. Support Vector Machine, a binary classifier is used to draw a classification between normal and abnormal OCT scans. Region-wise thickness, a few Haralick’s features, area between ILM and RPE and a few wavelet features are used to train the classifier. The classifier yielded an accuracy of 95% and a sensitivity of 100%. Thus, this algorithm can be used by ophthalmologists in early detection of Macular Edema.
Vessels delineation in retinal images using COSFIRE filtersNicola Strisciuglio
George Azzopardi, Nicola Strisciuglio, Mario Vento, Nicolai Petkov - "Trainable COSFIRE filters for vessel delineation with application to retinal images”, Medical Image Analysis, Available Online 3 September 2014, DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2014.08.002
The source code of the B-COSFIRE filters is available at:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/49172-trainable-cosfire-filters-for-vessel-delineation-with-application-to-retinal-images
Automatic detection of optic disc and blood vessels from retinal images using...eSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Automated Diagnosis of Glaucoma using Haralick Texture FeaturesIOSR Journals
Abstract : Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide. It is a disease in which fluid
pressure in the eye increases continuously, damaging the optic nerve and causing vision loss. Computational
decision support systems for the early detection of glaucoma can help prevent this complication. The retinal
optic nerve fibre layer can be assessed using optical coherence tomography, scanning laser polarimetry, and
Heidelberg retina tomography scanning methods. In this paper, we present a novel method for glaucoma
detection using an Haralick Texture Features from digital fundus images. K Nearest Neighbors (KNN)
classifiers are used to perform supervised classification. Our results demonstrate that the Haralick Texture
Features has Database and classification parts, in Database the image has been loaded and Gray Level Cooccurrence
Matrix (GLCM) and thirteen haralick features are combined to extract the image features, performs
better than the other classifiers and correctly identifies the glaucoma images with an accuracy of more than
98%. The impact of training and testing is also studied to improve results. Our proposed novel features are
clinically significant and can be used to detect glaucoma accurately.
Keywords: Glaucoma, Haralick Texture features, KNN Classifiers, Feature Extraction
Evaluating Human Visual Search Performance by Monte Carlo methods and Heurist...Giacomo Veneri
Visual search is an everyday activity that enables
humans to explore the real world. Given the visual input,
during a visual search, it’s required to select some aspects of the input in order to move to the next location. Exploration is guided by two factors: saliency of image (bottom-up) and endogenous mechanism (top-down). These two mechanisms interact to perform an efficient visual search. We developed a stochastic model, the ”break away from fixations” (BAF), to emulate the visual search on a high cognitively demanding task such as a trail making test (TMT). The paper reports a case study providing evidence that human exploration performs an efficient visual search based also on an internal model of regions already explored.
Automatic identification and classification of microaneurysms for detection o...eSAT Journals
Abstract Headlights of vehicles pose a great danger during night driving. The drivers of most vehicles use high, bright beam while driving at night. This causes a discomfort to the person travelling from the opposite direction. He experiences a sudden glare for a short period of time. This is caused due to the high intense headlight beam from the other vehicle coming towards him from the opposite direction. We are expected to dim the headlight to avoid this glare. This glare causes a temporary blindness to a person resulting in road accidents during the night. To avoid such incidents, we have fabricated a prototype of automatic headlight dimmer. This automatically switches the high beam into low beam thus reducing the glare effect by sensing the approaching vehicle. It also eliminates the requirement of manual switching by the driver which is not done at all times. The construction, working and the advantages of this prototype model is discussed in detail in this paper. Keywords: Headlight, automatic, dimmer, control, high beam, low beam, Kelvin (K).
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research(IJCER)ijceronline
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research(IJCER) is an intentional online Journal in English monthly publishing journal. This Journal publish original research work that contributes significantly to further the scientific knowledge in engineering and Technology.
Automatic Detection of Diabetic Maculopathy from Funduas Images Using Image A...Eman Al-dhaher
Diabetic retinopathy is a severe eye disease that affects many diabetic patients. It changes the small blood vessels in the retina resulting in loss of vision. Early detection and diagnosis have been identified as one of the ways to achieve a reduction in the percentage of visual impairment and blindness caused by diabetic retinopathy with emphasis on regular screening for detection and monitoring of this disease.
The work focuses on developing a fundus image analysis system that extracts the fundal features of the retina such as optic disk, macula (i.e., fovea) and exudates lesions (hard and soft exudates), which are the fundamental steps in an automated analyzing system to display and diagnosis diabetic retinopathy.
Bayesain Hypothesis of Selective Attention - Raw 2011 posterGiacomo Veneri
The aim of the study is to understand the process of target averaging during the selection process. We analyzed the probability to select the target after a fixation outside ROIs from the duration of fixations and the distance to the target. We aimed to respond to the question “is it possible to predict the selected area?” . In this study we tested the presence of information in non-ROI fixation data about the occurrence of a target at the next saccade. A classification algorithm was trained to predict the target vs. non-target outcome (dependent variable) of a saccade from summary statistics of fixation data (covariates). We claim that significantly accurate predictions are substantial evidence to support the hypothesis of "presence of information".
Review of methods for diabetic retinopathy detection and severity classificationeSAT Journals
Abstract Diabetic Retinopathy is a serious vascular disorder that might lead to complete blindness. Therefore, the early detection and the treatment are necessary to prevent major vision loss. Though the Manual screening methods are available, they are time consuming and inefficient on a large image database of patients. Moreover, it demands skilled professionals for the diagnosis. Automatic Diabetic Retinopathy diagnosis systems can replace manual methods as they can significantly reduce the manual labor involved in the screening process. Screening conducted over a larger population can become efficient if the system can separate normal and abnormal cases, instead of the manual examination of all images. Therefore, Automatic Retinopathy detection systems have attracted large popularity in the recent times. Automatic retinopathy detection systems employ image processing and computer vision techniques to detect different anomalies associated with retinopathy. This paper reviews various methods of diabetic retinopathy detection and classification into different stages based on severity levels and also, various image databases used for the research purpose are discussed. Keywords— Automatic Diabetic Retinopathy detection, computer vision, Diabetic Retinopathy, image databases, image processing, manual screening
The eye gaze analysis represents a challenging field of
research, since it offers a reproducible method to study the mechanisms of the brain. Eye movements are arguably the most frequent of all human movements and an essential part of human vision: they drive the fovea and consequently, the attention towards regions of interest in space. This enables the visual system to fixate and to process an image or its details with high resolution: act of fixation. This chapter investigates some common techniques and algorithms to study human vision.
AN AUTOMATIC SCREENING METHOD TO DETECT OPTIC DISC IN THE RETINAijait
The location of Optic Disc (OD) is of critical importance in retinal image analysis. This research paper carries out a new automated methodology to detect the optic disc (OD) in retinal images. OD detection helps the ophthalmologists to find whether the patient is affected by diabetic retinopathy or not. The proposed technique is to use line operator which gives higher percentage of detection than the already existing methods. The purpose of this project is to automatically detect the position of the OD in digital retinal fundus images. The method starts with converting the RGB image input into its LAB component. This image is smoothed using bilateral smoothing filter. Further, filtering is carried out using line operator. After which gray orientation and binary map orientation is carried out and then with the use of the resulting maximum image variation the area of the presence of the OD is found. The portions other
than OD are blurred using 2D circular convolution. On applying mathematical steps like peak classification, concentric circles design and image difference calculation, OD is detected. The proposed method was evaluated using a subset of the STARE project’s dataset and the success percentage was found
to be 96%.
Glaucoma Disease Diagnosis Using Feed Forward Neural Network ijcisjournal
Glaucoma is an eye disease which damages the optic nerve and or loss of the field of vision which leads to
complete blindness caused by the pressure buildup by the fluid of the eye i.e. the intraocular pressure
(IOP). This optic disorder with a gradual loss of the field of vision leads to progressive and irreversible
blindness, so it should be diagnosed and treated properly at an early stage. In this paper,
thedaubechies(db3) or symlets (sym3)and reverse biorthogonal (rbio3.7) wavelet filters are employed for
obtaining average and energy texture feature which are used to classify glaucoma disease with high
accuracy. The Feed-Forward neural network classifies the glaucoma disease with an accuracy of 96.67%.
In this work, the computational complexity is minimized by reducing the number of filters while retaining
the same accuracy.
The optic disc (OD) is one of the important part of the eye for detecting various diseases such as Diabetic Retinopathy and Glaucoma. The localization of optic disc is extremely important for determining hard exudates and lesions. Diagnosis of the disease can prevent people from vision loss. This paper analyzes various techniques which are proposed by different authors for the exact localization of optic disc to prevent vision loss.
An Approach for the Detection of Vascular Abnormalities in Diabetic Retinopathyijdmtaiir
Diabetic Retinopathy is a common complication of
diabetes that is caused by changes in the blood vessels of the
retina. The blood vessels in the retina get altered. Exudates are
secreted, micro-aneurysms and hemorrhages occur in the
retina. The appearance of these features represents the degree
of severity of the disease. In this paper the proposed approach
detects the presence of abnormalities in the retina using image
processing techniques by applying morphological processing
techniques to the fundus images to extract features such as
blood vessels, micro aneurysms and exudates. These features
are used for the detection of severity of Diabetic Retinopathy.
It can quickly process a large number of fundus images
obtained from mass screening to help reduce the cost, increase
productivity and efficiency for ophthalmologists.
Abstract:
A technique for exudate detectionin fundus image is been presented in this paper. Due to diabetic retinopathy an abnormality is caused known as exudates.The loss of vision can be prevented by detecting the exudates as early as possible. The work mainly aims at detecting exudates which is present in the green channel of the RGB image by applying few preprocessing steps, DWT and feature extraction. The extracted features are fed to 3 different classifiers such as KNN, SVM and NN. Based on the classifier result if an exudate is present the extraction of exudate ROI is done based on canny edge detection followed by morphological operations. The severity of the exudates is established on the area of the detected exudate.
Keywords:Exudates, Fundus image, Diabetic retinopathy, DWT, KNN, SVM, NN, Canny edge detection, Morphological operations.
There are three major complications of diabetes which lead to blindness. They are retinopathy, cataracts, and glaucoma among which diabetic retinopathy is considered as the most serious complication affecting the blood vessels in the retina. Diabetic retinopathy (DR) occurs when tiny vessels swell and leak fluid or abnormal new blood vessels grow hampering normal vision.
Diabetic retinopathy is a widespread problem of visual impairment. The abnormalities like microaneurysms, hemorrhages and exudates are the key symptoms which play an important role in diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy. Early detection of these abnormalities may prevent the blurred vision or vision loss due to diabetic retinopathy. Basically exudates are lipid lesions able to be seen in optical images. Exudates are categorized into hard exudates and soft exudates based on its appearance. Hard exudates come out as intense yellow regions and soft exudates have fuzzy manifestations. Automatic detection of exudates may aid ophthalmologists in diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy and its early treatment. Fig. 1 shows the key symptoms of diabetic retinopathy.
The International Journal of Engineering & Science is aimed at providing a platform for researchers, engineers, scientists, or educators to publish their original research results, to exchange new ideas, to disseminate information in innovative designs, engineering experiences and technological skills. It is also the Journal's objective to promote engineering and technology education. All papers submitted to the Journal will be blind peer-reviewed. Only original articles will be published.
An effective deep learning network for detecting and classifying glaucomatous...IJECEIAES
Glaucoma is a well-known complex disease of the optic nerve that gradually damages eyesight due to the increase of intraocular pressure inside the eyes. Among two types of glaucoma, open-angle glaucoma is mostly happened by high intraocular pressure and can damage the eyes temporarily or sometimes permanently, another one is angle-closure glaucoma. Therefore, being diagnosed in the early stage is necessary to safe our vision. There are several ways to detect glaucomatous eyes like tonometry, perimetry, and gonioscopy but require time and expertise. Using deep learning approaches could be a better solution. This study focused on the recognition of open-angle affected eyes from the fundus images using deep learning techniques. The study evolved by applying VGG16, VGG19, and ResNet50 deep neural network architectures for classifying glaucoma positive and negative eyes. The experiment was executed on a public dataset collected from Kaggle; however, every model performed better after augmenting the dataset, and the accuracy was between 93% and 97.56%. Among the three models, VGG19 achieved the highest accuracy at 97.56%.
Bibliometric analysis highlighting the role of women in addressing climate ch...IJECEIAES
Fossil fuel consumption increased quickly, contributing to climate change
that is evident in unusual flooding and draughts, and global warming. Over
the past ten years, women's involvement in society has grown dramatically,
and they succeeded in playing a noticeable role in reducing climate change.
A bibliometric analysis of data from the last ten years has been carried out to
examine the role of women in addressing the climate change. The analysis's
findings discussed the relevant to the sustainable development goals (SDGs),
particularly SDG 7 and SDG 13. The results considered contributions made
by women in the various sectors while taking geographic dispersion into
account. The bibliometric analysis delves into topics including women's
leadership in environmental groups, their involvement in policymaking, their
contributions to sustainable development projects, and the influence of
gender diversity on attempts to mitigate climate change. This study's results
highlight how women have influenced policies and actions related to climate
change, point out areas of research deficiency and recommendations on how
to increase role of the women in addressing the climate change and
achieving sustainability. To achieve more successful results, this initiative
aims to highlight the significance of gender equality and encourage
inclusivity in climate change decision-making processes.
Voltage and frequency control of microgrid in presence of micro-turbine inter...IJECEIAES
The active and reactive load changes have a significant impact on voltage
and frequency. In this paper, in order to stabilize the microgrid (MG) against
load variations in islanding mode, the active and reactive power of all
distributed generators (DGs), including energy storage (battery), diesel
generator, and micro-turbine, are controlled. The micro-turbine generator is
connected to MG through a three-phase to three-phase matrix converter, and
the droop control method is applied for controlling the voltage and
frequency of MG. In addition, a method is introduced for voltage and
frequency control of micro-turbines in the transition state from gridconnected mode to islanding mode. A novel switching strategy of the matrix
converter is used for converting the high-frequency output voltage of the
micro-turbine to the grid-side frequency of the utility system. Moreover,
using the switching strategy, the low-order harmonics in the output current
and voltage are not produced, and consequently, the size of the output filter
would be reduced. In fact, the suggested control strategy is load-independent
and has no frequency conversion restrictions. The proposed approach for
voltage and frequency regulation demonstrates exceptional performance and
favorable response across various load alteration scenarios. The suggested
strategy is examined in several scenarios in the MG test systems, and the
simulation results are addressed.
Enhancing battery system identification: nonlinear autoregressive modeling fo...IJECEIAES
Precisely characterizing Li-ion batteries is essential for optimizing their
performance, enhancing safety, and prolonging their lifespan across various
applications, such as electric vehicles and renewable energy systems. This
article introduces an innovative nonlinear methodology for system
identification of a Li-ion battery, employing a nonlinear autoregressive with
exogenous inputs (NARX) model. The proposed approach integrates the
benefits of nonlinear modeling with the adaptability of the NARX structure,
facilitating a more comprehensive representation of the intricate
electrochemical processes within the battery. Experimental data collected
from a Li-ion battery operating under diverse scenarios are employed to
validate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology. The identified
NARX model exhibits superior accuracy in predicting the battery's behavior
compared to traditional linear models. This study underscores the
importance of accounting for nonlinearities in battery modeling, providing
insights into the intricate relationships between state-of-charge, voltage, and
current under dynamic conditions.
Smart grid deployment: from a bibliometric analysis to a surveyIJECEIAES
Smart grids are one of the last decades' innovations in electrical energy.
They bring relevant advantages compared to the traditional grid and
significant interest from the research community. Assessing the field's
evolution is essential to propose guidelines for facing new and future smart
grid challenges. In addition, knowing the main technologies involved in the
deployment of smart grids (SGs) is important to highlight possible
shortcomings that can be mitigated by developing new tools. This paper
contributes to the research trends mentioned above by focusing on two
objectives. First, a bibliometric analysis is presented to give an overview of
the current research level about smart grid deployment. Second, a survey of
the main technological approaches used for smart grid implementation and
their contributions are highlighted. To that effect, we searched the Web of
Science (WoS), and the Scopus databases. We obtained 5,663 documents
from WoS and 7,215 from Scopus on smart grid implementation or
deployment. With the extraction limitation in the Scopus database, 5,872 of
the 7,215 documents were extracted using a multi-step process. These two
datasets have been analyzed using a bibliometric tool called bibliometrix.
The main outputs are presented with some recommendations for future
research.
Use of analytical hierarchy process for selecting and prioritizing islanding ...IJECEIAES
One of the problems that are associated to power systems is islanding
condition, which must be rapidly and properly detected to prevent any
negative consequences on the system's protection, stability, and security.
This paper offers a thorough overview of several islanding detection
strategies, which are divided into two categories: classic approaches,
including local and remote approaches, and modern techniques, including
techniques based on signal processing and computational intelligence.
Additionally, each approach is compared and assessed based on several
factors, including implementation costs, non-detected zones, declining
power quality, and response times using the analytical hierarchy process
(AHP). The multi-criteria decision-making analysis shows that the overall
weight of passive methods (24.7%), active methods (7.8%), hybrid methods
(5.6%), remote methods (14.5%), signal processing-based methods (26.6%),
and computational intelligent-based methods (20.8%) based on the
comparison of all criteria together. Thus, it can be seen from the total weight
that hybrid approaches are the least suitable to be chosen, while signal
processing-based methods are the most appropriate islanding detection
method to be selected and implemented in power system with respect to the
aforementioned factors. Using Expert Choice software, the proposed
hierarchy model is studied and examined.
Enhancing of single-stage grid-connected photovoltaic system using fuzzy logi...IJECEIAES
The power generated by photovoltaic (PV) systems is influenced by
environmental factors. This variability hampers the control and utilization of
solar cells' peak output. In this study, a single-stage grid-connected PV
system is designed to enhance power quality. Our approach employs fuzzy
logic in the direct power control (DPC) of a three-phase voltage source
inverter (VSI), enabling seamless integration of the PV connected to the
grid. Additionally, a fuzzy logic-based maximum power point tracking
(MPPT) controller is adopted, which outperforms traditional methods like
incremental conductance (INC) in enhancing solar cell efficiency and
minimizing the response time. Moreover, the inverter's real-time active and
reactive power is directly managed to achieve a unity power factor (UPF).
The system's performance is assessed through MATLAB/Simulink
implementation, showing marked improvement over conventional methods,
particularly in steady-state and varying weather conditions. For solar
irradiances of 500 and 1,000 W/m2
, the results show that the proposed
method reduces the total harmonic distortion (THD) of the injected current
to the grid by approximately 46% and 38% compared to conventional
methods, respectively. Furthermore, we compare the simulation results with
IEEE standards to evaluate the system's grid compatibility.
Enhancing photovoltaic system maximum power point tracking with fuzzy logic-b...IJECEIAES
Photovoltaic systems have emerged as a promising energy resource that
caters to the future needs of society, owing to their renewable, inexhaustible,
and cost-free nature. The power output of these systems relies on solar cell
radiation and temperature. In order to mitigate the dependence on
atmospheric conditions and enhance power tracking, a conventional
approach has been improved by integrating various methods. To optimize
the generation of electricity from solar systems, the maximum power point
tracking (MPPT) technique is employed. To overcome limitations such as
steady-state voltage oscillations and improve transient response, two
traditional MPPT methods, namely fuzzy logic controller (FLC) and perturb
and observe (P&O), have been modified. This research paper aims to
simulate and validate the step size of the proposed modified P&O and FLC
techniques within the MPPT algorithm using MATLAB/Simulink for
efficient power tracking in photovoltaic systems.
Adaptive synchronous sliding control for a robot manipulator based on neural ...IJECEIAES
Robot manipulators have become important equipment in production lines, medical fields, and transportation. Improving the quality of trajectory tracking for
robot hands is always an attractive topic in the research community. This is a
challenging problem because robot manipulators are complex nonlinear systems
and are often subject to fluctuations in loads and external disturbances. This
article proposes an adaptive synchronous sliding control scheme to improve trajectory tracking performance for a robot manipulator. The proposed controller
ensures that the positions of the joints track the desired trajectory, synchronize
the errors, and significantly reduces chattering. First, the synchronous tracking
errors and synchronous sliding surfaces are presented. Second, the synchronous
tracking error dynamics are determined. Third, a robust adaptive control law is
designed,the unknown components of the model are estimated online by the neural network, and the parameters of the switching elements are selected by fuzzy
logic. The built algorithm ensures that the tracking and approximation errors
are ultimately uniformly bounded (UUB). Finally, the effectiveness of the constructed algorithm is demonstrated through simulation and experimental results.
Simulation and experimental results show that the proposed controller is effective with small synchronous tracking errors, and the chattering phenomenon is
significantly reduced.
Remote field-programmable gate array laboratory for signal acquisition and de...IJECEIAES
A remote laboratory utilizing field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technologies enhances students’ learning experience anywhere and anytime in embedded system design. Existing remote laboratories prioritize hardware access and visual feedback for observing board behavior after programming, neglecting comprehensive debugging tools to resolve errors that require internal signal acquisition. This paper proposes a novel remote embeddedsystem design approach targeting FPGA technologies that are fully interactive via a web-based platform. Our solution provides FPGA board access and debugging capabilities beyond the visual feedback provided by existing remote laboratories. We implemented a lab module that allows users to seamlessly incorporate into their FPGA design. The module minimizes hardware resource utilization while enabling the acquisition of a large number of data samples from the signal during the experiments by adaptively compressing the signal prior to data transmission. The results demonstrate an average compression ratio of 2.90 across three benchmark signals, indicating efficient signal acquisition and effective debugging and analysis. This method allows users to acquire more data samples than conventional methods. The proposed lab allows students to remotely test and debug their designs, bridging the gap between theory and practice in embedded system design.
Detecting and resolving feature envy through automated machine learning and m...IJECEIAES
Efficiently identifying and resolving code smells enhances software project quality. This paper presents a novel solution, utilizing automated machine learning (AutoML) techniques, to detect code smells and apply move method refactoring. By evaluating code metrics before and after refactoring, we assessed its impact on coupling, complexity, and cohesion. Key contributions of this research include a unique dataset for code smell classification and the development of models using AutoGluon for optimal performance. Furthermore, the study identifies the top 20 influential features in classifying feature envy, a well-known code smell, stemming from excessive reliance on external classes. We also explored how move method refactoring addresses feature envy, revealing reduced coupling and complexity, and improved cohesion, ultimately enhancing code quality. In summary, this research offers an empirical, data-driven approach, integrating AutoML and move method refactoring to optimize software project quality. Insights gained shed light on the benefits of refactoring on code quality and the significance of specific features in detecting feature envy. Future research can expand to explore additional refactoring techniques and a broader range of code metrics, advancing software engineering practices and standards.
Smart monitoring technique for solar cell systems using internet of things ba...IJECEIAES
Rapidly and remotely monitoring and receiving the solar cell systems status parameters, solar irradiance, temperature, and humidity, are critical issues in enhancement their efficiency. Hence, in the present article an improved smart prototype of internet of things (IoT) technique based on embedded system through NodeMCU ESP8266 (ESP-12E) was carried out experimentally. Three different regions at Egypt; Luxor, Cairo, and El-Beheira cities were chosen to study their solar irradiance profile, temperature, and humidity by the proposed IoT system. The monitoring data of solar irradiance, temperature, and humidity were live visualized directly by Ubidots through hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) protocol. The measured solar power radiation in Luxor, Cairo, and El-Beheira ranged between 216-1000, 245-958, and 187-692 W/m 2 respectively during the solar day. The accuracy and rapidity of obtaining monitoring results using the proposed IoT system made it a strong candidate for application in monitoring solar cell systems. On the other hand, the obtained solar power radiation results of the three considered regions strongly candidate Luxor and Cairo as suitable places to build up a solar cells system station rather than El-Beheira.
An efficient security framework for intrusion detection and prevention in int...IJECEIAES
Over the past few years, the internet of things (IoT) has advanced to connect billions of smart devices to improve quality of life. However, anomalies or malicious intrusions pose several security loopholes, leading to performance degradation and threat to data security in IoT operations. Thereby, IoT security systems must keep an eye on and restrict unwanted events from occurring in the IoT network. Recently, various technical solutions based on machine learning (ML) models have been derived towards identifying and restricting unwanted events in IoT. However, most ML-based approaches are prone to miss-classification due to inappropriate feature selection. Additionally, most ML approaches applied to intrusion detection and prevention consider supervised learning, which requires a large amount of labeled data to be trained. Consequently, such complex datasets are impossible to source in a large network like IoT. To address this problem, this proposed study introduces an efficient learning mechanism to strengthen the IoT security aspects. The proposed algorithm incorporates supervised and unsupervised approaches to improve the learning models for intrusion detection and mitigation. Compared with the related works, the experimental outcome shows that the model performs well in a benchmark dataset. It accomplishes an improved detection accuracy of approximately 99.21%.
Developing a smart system for infant incubators using the internet of things ...IJECEIAES
This research is developing an incubator system that integrates the internet of things and artificial intelligence to improve care for premature babies. The system workflow starts with sensors that collect data from the incubator. Then, the data is sent in real-time to the internet of things (IoT) broker eclipse mosquito using the message queue telemetry transport (MQTT) protocol version 5.0. After that, the data is stored in a database for analysis using the long short-term memory network (LSTM) method and displayed in a web application using an application programming interface (API) service. Furthermore, the experimental results produce as many as 2,880 rows of data stored in the database. The correlation coefficient between the target attribute and other attributes ranges from 0.23 to 0.48. Next, several experiments were conducted to evaluate the model-predicted value on the test data. The best results are obtained using a two-layer LSTM configuration model, each with 60 neurons and a lookback setting 6. This model produces an R 2 value of 0.934, with a root mean square error (RMSE) value of 0.015 and a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.008. In addition, the R 2 value was also evaluated for each attribute used as input, with a result of values between 0.590 and 0.845.
A review on internet of things-based stingless bee's honey production with im...IJECEIAES
Honey is produced exclusively by honeybees and stingless bees which both are well adapted to tropical and subtropical regions such as Malaysia. Stingless bees are known for producing small amounts of honey and are known for having a unique flavor profile. Problem identified that many stingless bees collapsed due to weather, temperature and environment. It is critical to understand the relationship between the production of stingless bee honey and environmental conditions to improve honey production. Thus, this paper presents a review on stingless bee's honey production and prediction modeling. About 54 previous research has been analyzed and compared in identifying the research gaps. A framework on modeling the prediction of stingless bee honey is derived. The result presents the comparison and analysis on the internet of things (IoT) monitoring systems, honey production estimation, convolution neural networks (CNNs), and automatic identification methods on bee species. It is identified based on image detection method the top best three efficiency presents CNN is at 98.67%, densely connected convolutional networks with YOLO v3 is 97.7%, and DenseNet201 convolutional networks 99.81%. This study is significant to assist the researcher in developing a model for predicting stingless honey produced by bee's output, which is important for a stable economy and food security.
A trust based secure access control using authentication mechanism for intero...IJECEIAES
The internet of things (IoT) is a revolutionary innovation in many aspects of our society including interactions, financial activity, and global security such as the military and battlefield internet. Due to the limited energy and processing capacity of network devices, security, energy consumption, compatibility, and device heterogeneity are the long-term IoT problems. As a result, energy and security are critical for data transmission across edge and IoT networks. Existing IoT interoperability techniques need more computation time, have unreliable authentication mechanisms that break easily, lose data easily, and have low confidentiality. In this paper, a key agreement protocol-based authentication mechanism for IoT devices is offered as a solution to this issue. This system makes use of information exchange, which must be secured to prevent access by unauthorized users. Using a compact contiki/cooja simulator, the performance and design of the suggested framework are validated. The simulation findings are evaluated based on detection of malicious nodes after 60 minutes of simulation. The suggested trust method, which is based on privacy access control, reduced packet loss ratio to 0.32%, consumed 0.39% power, and had the greatest average residual energy of 0.99 mJoules at 10 nodes.
Fuzzy linear programming with the intuitionistic polygonal fuzzy numbersIJECEIAES
In real world applications, data are subject to ambiguity due to several factors; fuzzy sets and fuzzy numbers propose a great tool to model such ambiguity. In case of hesitation, the complement of a membership value in fuzzy numbers can be different from the non-membership value, in which case we can model using intuitionistic fuzzy numbers as they provide flexibility by defining both a membership and a non-membership functions. In this article, we consider the intuitionistic fuzzy linear programming problem with intuitionistic polygonal fuzzy numbers, which is a generalization of the previous polygonal fuzzy numbers found in the literature. We present a modification of the simplex method that can be used to solve any general intuitionistic fuzzy linear programming problem after approximating the problem by an intuitionistic polygonal fuzzy number with n edges. This method is given in a simple tableau formulation, and then applied on numerical examples for clarity.
The performance of artificial intelligence in prostate magnetic resonance im...IJECEIAES
Prostate cancer is the predominant form of cancer observed in men worldwide. The application of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a guidance tool for conducting biopsies has been established as a reliable and well-established approach in the diagnosis of prostate cancer. The diagnostic performance of MRI-guided prostate cancer diagnosis exhibits significant heterogeneity due to the intricate and multi-step nature of the diagnostic pathway. The development of artificial intelligence (AI) models, specifically through the utilization of machine learning techniques such as deep learning, is assuming an increasingly significant role in the field of radiology. In the realm of prostate MRI, a considerable body of literature has been dedicated to the development of various AI algorithms. These algorithms have been specifically designed for tasks such as prostate segmentation, lesion identification, and classification. The overarching objective of these endeavors is to enhance diagnostic performance and foster greater agreement among different observers within MRI scans for the prostate. This review article aims to provide a concise overview of the application of AI in the field of radiology, with a specific focus on its utilization in prostate MRI.
Seizure stage detection of epileptic seizure using convolutional neural networksIJECEIAES
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), seventy million individuals worldwide suffer from epilepsy, a neurological disorder. While electroencephalography (EEG) is crucial for diagnosing epilepsy and monitoring the brain activity of epilepsy patients, it requires a specialist to examine all EEG recordings to find epileptic behavior. This procedure needs an experienced doctor, and a precise epilepsy diagnosis is crucial for appropriate treatment. To identify epileptic seizures, this study employed a convolutional neural network (CNN) based on raw scalp EEG signals to discriminate between preictal, ictal, postictal, and interictal segments. The possibility of these characteristics is explored by examining how well timedomain signals work in the detection of epileptic signals using intracranial Freiburg Hospital (FH), scalp Children's Hospital Boston-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (CHB-MIT) databases, and Temple University Hospital (TUH) EEG. To test the viability of this approach, two types of experiments were carried out. Firstly, binary class classification (preictal, ictal, postictal each versus interictal) and four-class classification (interictal versus preictal versus ictal versus postictal). The average accuracy for stage detection using CHB-MIT database was 84.4%, while the Freiburg database's time-domain signals had an accuracy of 79.7% and the highest accuracy of 94.02% for classification in the TUH EEG database when comparing interictal stage to preictal stage.
Analysis of driving style using self-organizing maps to analyze driver behaviorIJECEIAES
Modern life is strongly associated with the use of cars, but the increase in acceleration speeds and their maneuverability leads to a dangerous driving style for some drivers. In these conditions, the development of a method that allows you to track the behavior of the driver is relevant. The article provides an overview of existing methods and models for assessing the functioning of motor vehicles and driver behavior. Based on this, a combined algorithm for recognizing driving style is proposed. To do this, a set of input data was formed, including 20 descriptive features: About the environment, the driver's behavior and the characteristics of the functioning of the car, collected using OBD II. The generated data set is sent to the Kohonen network, where clustering is performed according to driving style and degree of danger. Getting the driving characteristics into a particular cluster allows you to switch to the private indicators of an individual driver and considering individual driving characteristics. The application of the method allows you to identify potentially dangerous driving styles that can prevent accidents.
Hyperspectral object classification using hybrid spectral-spatial fusion and ...IJECEIAES
Because of its spectral-spatial and temporal resolution of greater areas, hyperspectral imaging (HSI) has found widespread application in the field of object classification. The HSI is typically used to accurately determine an object's physical characteristics as well as to locate related objects with appropriate spectral fingerprints. As a result, the HSI has been extensively applied to object identification in several fields, including surveillance, agricultural monitoring, environmental research, and precision agriculture. However, because of their enormous size, objects require a lot of time to classify; for this reason, both spectral and spatial feature fusion have been completed. The existing classification strategy leads to increased misclassification, and the feature fusion method is unable to preserve semantic object inherent features; This study addresses the research difficulties by introducing a hybrid spectral-spatial fusion (HSSF) technique to minimize feature size while maintaining object intrinsic qualities; Lastly, a soft-margins kernel is proposed for multi-layer deep support vector machine (MLDSVM) to reduce misclassification. The standard Indian pines dataset is used for the experiment, and the outcome demonstrates that the HSSF-MLDSVM model performs substantially better in terms of accuracy and Kappa coefficient.
Event Management System Vb Net Project Report.pdfKamal Acharya
In present era, the scopes of information technology growing with a very fast .We do not see any are untouched from this industry. The scope of information technology has become wider includes: Business and industry. Household Business, Communication, Education, Entertainment, Science, Medicine, Engineering, Distance Learning, Weather Forecasting. Carrier Searching and so on.
My project named “Event Management System” is software that store and maintained all events coordinated in college. It also helpful to print related reports. My project will help to record the events coordinated by faculties with their Name, Event subject, date & details in an efficient & effective ways.
In my system we have to make a system by which a user can record all events coordinated by a particular faculty. In our proposed system some more featured are added which differs it from the existing system such as security.
Cosmetic shop management system project report.pdfKamal Acharya
Buying new cosmetic products is difficult. It can even be scary for those who have sensitive skin and are prone to skin trouble. The information needed to alleviate this problem is on the back of each product, but it's thought to interpret those ingredient lists unless you have a background in chemistry.
Instead of buying and hoping for the best, we can use data science to help us predict which products may be good fits for us. It includes various function programs to do the above mentioned tasks.
Data file handling has been effectively used in the program.
The automated cosmetic shop management system should deal with the automation of general workflow and administration process of the shop. The main processes of the system focus on customer's request where the system is able to search the most appropriate products and deliver it to the customers. It should help the employees to quickly identify the list of cosmetic product that have reached the minimum quantity and also keep a track of expired date for each cosmetic product. It should help the employees to find the rack number in which the product is placed.It is also Faster and more efficient way.
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Indigenized remote control interface card suitable for MAFI system CCR equipment. Compatible for IDM8000 CCR. Backplane mounted serial and TCP/Ethernet communication module for CCR remote access. IDM 8000 CCR remote control on serial and TCP protocol.
• Remote control: Parallel or serial interface.
• Compatible with MAFI CCR system.
• Compatible with IDM8000 CCR.
• Compatible with Backplane mount serial communication.
• Compatible with commercial and Defence aviation CCR system.
• Remote control system for accessing CCR and allied system over serial or TCP.
• Indigenized local Support/presence in India.
• Easy in configuration using DIP switches.
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Indigenized remote control interface card suitable for MAFI system CCR equipment. Compatible for IDM8000 CCR. Backplane mounted serial and TCP/Ethernet communication module for CCR remote access. IDM 8000 CCR remote control on serial and TCP protocol.
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COLLEGE BUS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PROJECT REPORT.pdfKamal Acharya
The College Bus Management system is completely developed by Visual Basic .NET Version. The application is connect with most secured database language MS SQL Server. The application is develop by using best combination of front-end and back-end languages. The application is totally design like flat user interface. This flat user interface is more attractive user interface in 2017. The application is gives more important to the system functionality. The application is to manage the student’s details, driver’s details, bus details, bus route details, bus fees details and more. The application has only one unit for admin. The admin can manage the entire application. The admin can login into the application by using username and password of the admin. The application is develop for big and small colleges. It is more user friendly for non-computer person. Even they can easily learn how to manage the application within hours. The application is more secure by the admin. The system will give an effective output for the VB.Net and SQL Server given as input to the system. The compiled java program given as input to the system, after scanning the program will generate different reports. The application generates the report for users. The admin can view and download the report of the data. The application deliver the excel format reports. Because, excel formatted reports is very easy to understand the income and expense of the college bus. This application is mainly develop for windows operating system users. In 2017, 73% of people enterprises are using windows operating system. So the application will easily install for all the windows operating system users. The application-developed size is very low. The application consumes very low space in disk. Therefore, the user can allocate very minimum local disk space for this application.
Welcome to WIPAC Monthly the magazine brought to you by the LinkedIn Group Water Industry Process Automation & Control.
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Immunizing Image Classifiers Against Localized Adversary Attacksgerogepatton
This paper addresses the vulnerability of deep learning models, particularly convolutional neural networks
(CNN)s, to adversarial attacks and presents a proactive training technique designed to counter them. We
introduce a novel volumization algorithm, which transforms 2D images into 3D volumetric representations.
When combined with 3D convolution and deep curriculum learning optimization (CLO), itsignificantly improves
the immunity of models against localized universal attacks by up to 40%. We evaluate our proposed approach
using contemporary CNN architectures and the modified Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR-10
and CIFAR-100) and ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC12) datasets, showcasing
accuracy improvements over previous techniques. The results indicate that the combination of the volumetric
input and curriculum learning holds significant promise for mitigating adversarial attacks without necessitating
adversary training.
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analyze the swelling of the macula. This study consists of two stages. The first stage is vessel extraction and
the second one is vessel reconstruction.
The image input is a fundus green channel image that is converted into grayscale image. In this
study, Speeded Up Robust Features (SURF) algorithm was used to describe the process of macula detection
on retinal image by discovering the compatibility between the features points of each image. This study also
used Random Sample and Consensus (RANSAC) algorithm to match the points that correspondent and
Gaussian function algorithm for smoothing the macular image splicing. The RANSAC algorithm that was
implemented in this study used to select random subset from original image to achieve the best results in
localizing the swollen macula area [7]. This study determined the presence of macula edema by detecting the
presence of fovea. Fovea lies in the middle of macula. Fovea and optic disc detection were performed using
motion pattern recognition. The feature selection was carried on using Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
by creating new feature derived from extraction of linear features combinations. Therefore, they can be used
to reduce the selected feature dimension which is edema macula. Gaussian derivative also used in this study
to capture the characteristic of edema macula patters that will be detected [8].
The retinal fundus optic disc locatization was performed in several steps. The first step was
performing green chanel image fundus extraction. The next step was carry out fitur optic nerve head (ONH).
ONH was performed based on the contour from optic disc cup area. In performing the extraction, the
researchers converting the image to grayscale and executing thresholding with dilation and erotion operation.
The next step is performing edge detection using dilation operation to create matrix feature. The result of
matrix feature will be used as an input for training and testing process. The training and testing process in this
study using SVM method [9]. The research was performed by establishing an automatic diagnostic system to
detect macule using fluorescein image. In the preliminary stages, noise reduction was done in preprocessing
phase to eliminate the object details beside the macula and to maintain its lightning distribution with
Gaussian filter. There were several processes in this study, for instance blood vessel segmentation with
Gaussian filter, optic disc detection, and red lesion detection to segment micro aneurysm feature.
The segmented feature will describe the shape, color and contrast of the detected candidates [10].
The optic disc detection in this study was done by detecting the maximum area with the highest pixel value.
Then the retinal fundus image along with the optic disc that already being detected will perform local image
features process. Pixel weighting was carried out to gain neighboring influence in performing segmentation
by clustering each pixel inside the cluster center. The macula classification phase proposed in this study is
based on some parameters such as the size of macula window’s area and spatial relationship between pixels
in the retinal fundus [11].
The medical examination of the edematous macules is done by direct observation by the physician
through Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) examination. This examination will provide cross sectional
of retinal issue images. In this examination, the thickness of the retina and macula will be measured, which
indicate the occurrence of swelling and fluid clots in the area. Determination of optic disc localization in this
study carried on using fundus image. Disc localization and macula are principal factors that determined the
distance interpretations between the centers of macula with optic disc in pixel representation to know the
diameter of macular thickening. This study used some parameters. For instance, the circle radius, the size of
window filter, and constant value as well as the size of optic disc structuring element and macula. The result
of this study is expected to improve the accuracy of macular detection that experienced edema.
2. RESEARCH METHOD
2.1. Data Sets
This study used imaging images with Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and Fluorescein
Angiography fundus image as can be seen in Figure 1.
Figure 1. OCT and Fundus Image
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In the fundus retinal image in Figure 1, the image shows quite low contrast of retina’s macula.
Macula objects are sometime hindered by another object that indicate retinal abnormalities such as the
exudate, dot and blood hemorrhage, micro aneurysm as well as Intra-Retinal Microvascular Abnormalities
(IRMA’s). These abnormalities can cause difficulties and in localization of macular area.
2.2. Estimate Optic Disc Position
In Fluorescein Angiography (FA) fundus image, the initial phases of the process were detecting the
center estimation and the diameter of optic disc. The estimation of macula area was based on the distance and
its position with optic disc. This distance is relatively constant in each retina. The size of the disc on each
retina image of the patient is varies, but generally the size of optic disc has diameter between 1.8 ± 2mm
inside the image fundus with standard size of 768 x 576 pixel. There are some factors that make optic disc
edge detection accurate. Some parts of the optic disc will be obscured by many retinal blood vessels. In
general, the process in localizing the existence of the optic disc in this study was performed by the following
algorithm:
1. Green channel FA fundus image extraction. The green channel was selected as the primary color since
green color has the high intensity compare to the others two colors; red and blue in an image with RGB)
color as can be seen in Figure 2. Below is the mathematical formula to find the green channel selection :
)( BGR
G
g
(1)
Figure 2. OCT and Green Channel Fundus Fluorescein Angiography (FA) Image
2.3. Morfology
Formula (1) is performed to find a green channel in an image, while R, G and B are stand for Red,
Green and Blue sequentially. In green channel, the detail of image can be seen clearly and comprehensively.
Whereas the used of red channel only going to show the image edge while in blue channel merely provide
just part of the image’s detail and contain a lot of noise. Based on image in Figure 2, the contrast of optic disc
can be observed better in green channel compared to red and blue channel in RGB image. Therefore, this
study only used green channel image to compute the optimal threshold. Figure 3 shows the green channel
fundus Fluorescein Angiography (FA) image and its histogram. It can be seen that the pixel that
corresponding with optic disc have higher intensity in histogram.
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Figure 3. OCT and Green Channel Fundus Fluorescein Angiography (FA) Image
2. The localization of optic disc position. Optic disc localization can be performed by considering the
geometry shape of optic disc on several connected components. The difficulties in estimating the optic
disc position is the presence of other objects outside the optic disc image that has connected component
as well as can be seen in Figure 4.
Figure 4. Connected Component Detection on Optic Disc
3. Each component that connected to the image will be labelled with the number of pixels in the
component. Spatial coordinate of each connected component is calculated. Component is assumed to
have maximum number of pixels with maximum diameter of optic disc which is 2 mm. Consequently, if
one component of the image spatial coordinate is within 50 distance pixels from spatial coordinate of the
mean largest component, the object will be combined and the new mean of image spatial coordinate will
be computed as can be seen in Figure 5.
Figure 5. Position Estimation of Optic Disc
4. Performing connected component tagging with object geometry approach using some parameters below :
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1) The value area is computed based on the maximum and mean intensity in the optic disc area.
2) Restricting the area that are detected as an optic disc. This area is the number of image dimension
with angle and width parameters in retinal image that is written in an array form using the formula:
BoundingBox=[corner width] (2)
3) Retinal optic disc position estimation based on the ratio where the shape of the optic disc is circle. In
a circle object the properties that can be discovered are [12]: Radius of the circle r , circle diameter
d , wide of circle L , circumference of circle and P parameter. The formula to localize optic disc
position based on the ratio of round
4) The extensive and parameter value as the property of this circle can be performed in optic disc
regions which will be localized as the basic form of the roundabout size using this formula:
L
P
Ratio
4
2
(3)
5) If the result value of detected object ratio yields 1 and has the intensity equal or almost the same as
optic disc intensity, this detected object will be marked (localization). The objects that have different
characteristic with the optic disc will not be marked. In general, the optic disc illustration can be
seen in Figure 6.
Figure 6. Optic Disc Position Localization Illustration
The ratio value of 1 is based on the ratio length of major axis and minor axis of the object that was
detected in fundus image as can be seen in Figure 7.
Figure 7. Ma Detected Optic Disc
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2.4. Localization OCT Macula Layers
Localization of macular image layer area was performed on preprocessing phase. This localization
was carried on in calculating the macular area outside the normal size of retina macular image. The macula
area has the thickness of 400 μm, diminishing on fovea with the size of 150 μm, and becoming thinner on ora
serrata with the thickness of 80 μm [13]. The macula has very low contrast inside the retinal image and
sometime the area of macula is blocked by the exudates or the bleeding in the retina’s region [14]. The
algorithms of preprocessing phase on OCT macular images area can be explained below:
1. Read the OCT Image
2. Performing the blurring process to reduce the noise in OCT image. The intensity value of the image
changes a lot as in Figure 8. The noise in OCT images have the form of dots or pixels with different
intensity. This study used the first derivative of Gaussian filter to reduce the noise on OCT image with
the formula below:
2
22
2
2
2
1
),(
yx
eyxG
(4)
Where denote the derivative standard from pixel distribution of OCT image OCT ),( yxI . Assumed a
distribution have an average value equal to 0 ( =1).
Figure 8. Noise Reduction Process and OCT Macula Image
(a) Original Image (b) Image from Blurring Process
3. Performing edge detection on image gradient at horizontal direction from the filtering image using the
algorithms below:
a) Read the image resulted from blurring phase.
b) Read size of the image with function [N, M] =size (G). [N M] is a pixel line and column of an image
obtained from blurring phase G(x,y). The first derivative of image function G(x,y) towards xand y
axis that are computed using formula [15] :
),( yx
x
G
and ),( yx
y
G
(5)
Whereas, the vector gradient and the amplitude can be calculated with [9] :
),(
),(
),(
yx
y
G
yx
x
G
yxG
(6)
22
),(),(),(|| yx
y
G
yx
x
G
yxG
(7)
4. Referring to equation 7, the first partial derivative of images from blurring phase were computed based
on the two-closed neighboring pixel. Therefore, the gradient can be obtained:
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),(),1(),(),( yxGyxGyx
x
G
yxG x
(8)
xyxG ),( is an image gradient on x horizontal direction that produced edge of object in the shape of
horizontal line, as in Figure 9.
Figure 9. Image Gradient on Horizontal Direction
5. Labeled the connected component that link horizontal image gradient with adjacent matrix. x pixel is
said to be adjacent with y pixel if there is a connected connection between them. Two images subset S1
and S2 are adjacent if some pixels on S1 adjacent with some S1 pixels as in Figure 10.
Figure 10. Subset S1 and S2
Path from pixel xwith coordinate ),( qp for y pixel with coordinate ),( sr is a pixel order that differ from
coordinate ),),...(,(),,( 110 nno qpqpqp
where:
n = Path
),(),(),,(),( 00 srqpqpqp nn (9)
),( 11 yp is adjacent where :
11, ii qp (10)
6. Compute the distance between ),( qpx and ),( sry using city block distance with 4 connectivity as
can be seen in Figure 11 using the formula :
||||),(4 sqrpyxD (11)
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Figure 11. City Block Distance with 4 Connectivity
3. RESULTS AND ANALYSIS
3.1. Experimental Image
The localization of the optical disc position was performed in geometric optic disc form by
considering several connected components. The difficulty in performing the optic disc position estimation
was the occurrence of another object outside the optical disc that has a connected component as well. Figure
12 shows the proposed algorithm in this study succeed to localize the presence of optic disc on fundus image.
Figure 12. Estimation Image OD Position
In previous study, the process of retinal fundus optic disc images localization was performed using
combination of morphological operation and optic disc center point determination. This method was carried
out by detecting the geometric shape in the parametric form, where the shape of the optic disc is circular. The
exploitation of Hough Transformation [16] was carried out to search the most suitable geometric form that
correspond to the set of points in the image. The transformation is done to find the lines and the curves that
passing by many points inside the image. These lines and curves are the one that near and most correspond
with the data in the image matrix. The selection of the circular radius greatly affect the accuracy of the area
localization of optic disc. If the circular parameter value is too small or too big, it will affect the distance of
macula’s center from the central of optic disc, resulting macula ROI will be unsuitable. The study in this
paper used roundness ratio. This roundness ratio is the ratio of the radius at the smallest angle to the radius
average of fundus image as object. The ratio of this study was proposed by the researchers to perform
comparison between the shorthest axis with the longest axis of the optic disc. Table 1 shows examples of FA
fundus Image OD estimation position.
As can be seen on Table 1, the optic disc with the roundness object ratio approach succesfully
localizing its position correctly. This ratio is the average geometric diameter of optic disc with its longest
diameter, where the object with a rounded geometric shape connected component in fundus image is an optic
disc. Therefore, those area are localized as optic disc.
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Table 1. Optic Disc Localization Result
Image FA Fundus Image Optic Disc Localization Result
FA1
FA2
FA3
FA4
FA5
3.2. OCT Macula Image Localization
The macula’s layers play important role in human’s vision. These multiple layers are located in
three different areas (Fovea, Avascular Zone and Foveolar) as can be seen in Figure 13.
Figure 13. (a) Fundus Scanned Image FA, (b). Area and Layers of OCT Macula,
(c). Macula Area Position
Edema macula is associated with vision blindness in non proliferative diabetic retinopathy. The
symptoms are characterized by (i) the retinal thickening at or within 500µm distance from the center of
macula, (ii) the occurrence of exudates or within 500µm distance from the center of macula followed by the
thickening of the retinal surround the macula’s center and (iii) retinal thickening that greater than one disc
diameter (DD) distance from the center of macula. The changes inside the macula’s layer area will influence
the peripheral’s vision. Therefore, it is very important to localize the area of macula in detecting macula that
has edema [17]. Figure 14 shows the example of OCT macula layers localization’s results on Inner Limiting
Membrane (ILM) area and RPE OCT macula image.
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Code Note
ILM Inner Limiting Membrane
NFL/ GCL Nerve Fiber Layer
IPL/ INL Inner Plexiform Layer
INL/ OPL Inner Nuclear Layer
OPL/ ONL Outer Plexiform Layer
OPL/ ONL Outer Nuclear Layer
IS/ OS Inner Segment
RPE Retinal Pigmented Epithellium
Figure 14. Macula Area Localization and OCT Macula Layer [17]
Many approaches had been done by some researchers in OCT macula images localization. This
localization was carried out through selecting the pixel that will be used as seed point and by searching the
similar neighboring pixels. The pixels area then expanded by adding similar pixel to the neighboring pixels.
Unfortunatelly, researchers facing difficulties of performing segmentation on OCT makula area. The
difficulties are on color similarities and on texture of each macula layer. Macula layers consist of 8 layers
OCT. In this study, the researchers proposed the utilizing of adjacency matrix to present the pixels of macular
layer. These layers are closed to the other macula’s layer. The adjacency was performed by presenting pixel 1
which indicating if node i to node j has an edge and 0 otherwise (when the node has no edge).
4. CONCLUSION
The proposed algorithm succeeds to localize the existence of optic disc. This optic disc is based on
the connected component that distinguished optic disc with the other object of the image fundus such as the
exudates. The result of macula’s area localization on OCT image can compute the macula area outside the
normal size of macula retina image. The approach with geometric optic disc ratio succeeds to localized the
optic disc. The exploitation of adjacendy matrix able to distinguish every layer of OCT macula image despite
their similarities and color neighboring.
For the further research, the thickness of 7 layers of macula OCT image will be detected. This
thickness will be used as reference to detect the sign of the presence of edema macula on OCT image.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We are indebted to the experts who have contributed towards development of the template. The
authors would like to acknowledge to Gunadarma University.
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BIOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORS
Rodiah currently active as Vice Head of Postgraduate Academic System Development and a
lecturer at Gunadarma University. Research interest is in medical image processing.
Sarifuddin Madenda is a professor. Currently he is active as the Head of PhD Programs of
Information Technology and a lecturer at PhD Program at Gunadarma University. Her Research
interest is in signal, video and image processing.
Dewi Agushinta Rahayu currently active as Vice Dean for Academic Affair and a lecturer at
Gunadarma University. Research interest is in face in recognition system.
Diana Tri Susetianingtias currently active as a lecturer at Gunadarma University. Research
interest is in online medical image processing
Ety Sutanty is a Doctoral student at Gunadarma University. Her Research interest is in Image
Processing