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
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).
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.
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 Screening of Diabetic Retinopathy Using Image Processingiosrjce
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.
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).
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.
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 Screening of Diabetic Retinopathy Using Image Processingiosrjce
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.
Tool-Matlab
Drive database is considered for extraction of features and testing images to detect the ground truth and even images from internet.
The image features like Blood vessel area,optic disk area,entropy,energy are calculated.
Diabetic Retinopathy Detection using Neural Networkingijtsrd
The clinical and laboratory studies states that diabetic retinopathy is the major cause of permanent blindness among the aged personalities. The problem with this disease is that there is no cure for it and the only thing we can do is to detect the disease as soon as possible in order to prevent further loss of vision. In this system we propose a CNN approach for diagnosing DR from retinal images and classifying the stages of the disease .The classification is done based on the haemorrhages, micro aneurysms present in the retinal image. We train this network using a high end graphics processor unit GPU using kaggle data set and the disease classification is done, hence we can identify the the disease and prevent the further loss of vision. N Rahul | Roy Eluvathingal | Sanith Jayan K | Mr. Anil Antony "Diabetic Retinopathy Detection using Neural Networking" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-4 , June 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd31487.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/computer-engineering/31487/diabetic-retinopathy-detection-using-neural-networking/n-rahul
EXUDATES DETECTION FROM DIGITAL FUNDUS IMAGE OF DIABETIC RETINOPATHYijabjournal
The aim of this paper is to detect exudates from the digital fundus images and provide information about Non Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy is very complicated disease that occurs when the retinal blood vessels changes. Exudates are the first sign of the diabetic retinopathy which cause blindness. So it is very important to find out these exudates in fundus image. In this paper we have proposed a method which is used for segmentation of optic disc and exudates. Morphological operations are used for detection of exudates. Before this operation we are applying Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization technique. The results are compared with the standard database.
Automatic Detection of Non-Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy Using Fundus Im...iosrjce
To diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) it is the prime cause of blindness in the working age
population of the world. Detection method is proposed to detect dark or red lesions such as microaneurysms
and hemorrhages in fundus images.Developed during this work, this first is for collection of lesion data
information and was used by the ophthalmologist in marking images for database while the automatic
diagnosing and displaying the diagnosis result in a more friendly user interface and is as shown in chapter
three of this report. The primary aim of this project is to develop a system that will be able to identify patients
with BDR and PDR from either colour image or grey level image obtained from the retina of the patient. The
algorithm was tested fundus images. The Operating Characteristics (ROC) was determined for red spot lesion
and bleeding, while cross over points were only detected leaving further classification as part of future work
needed to complete this global project. Sensitivity and specificity was calculated for the algorithm is given
respectively as 96.3% and 95.1%
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
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
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.
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.
C LASSIFICATION O F D IABETES R ETINA I MAGES U SING B LOOD V ESSEL A REASIJCI JOURNAL
Retina images are obtained from the fundus camera a
nd graded by skilled professionals. However there i
s
considerable shortage of expert observers has encou
raged computer assisted monitoring. Evaluation of
blood vessels network plays an important task in a
variety of medical diagnosis. Manifestations of
numerous vascular disorders, such as diabetic retin
opathy, depend on detection of the blood vessels
network. In this work the fundus RGB image is used
for obtaining the traces of blood vessels and areas
of
blood vessels are used for detection of Diabetic Re
tinopathy (DR). The algorithm developed uses
morphological operation to extract blood vessels. M
ainly two steps are used: firstly enhancement opera
tion
is applied to original retina image to remove noise
and increase contrast of retinal blood vessels. Se
condly
morphology operations are used to take out blood ve
ssels. Experiments are conducted on publicly availa
ble
DIARETDB1 database. Experimental results obtained b
y using gray-scale images have been presented.
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.
Diabetic retinopathy is the cause for
blindness in the human society. Early detection of it prevents
blindness. Image processing techniques can reduce the work of
ophthalmologists and the tools used to detect Diabetic
Retinopathy Patients. Proliferative diabetic retinopathy is the
most advanced stage of diabetic retinopathy, and is classified by
the growth of new blood vessels. These blood vessels are
abnormal and fragile, and are susceptible to leaking blood and
fluid onto the retina, which can cause severe vision loss. First,
vessel-like patterns are segmented by using Ridge Strength
Measurement and Watershed lines. The second step is measuring
the vessel pattern obtained [5][10]. Many features that are
extracted from the blood vessels such as shape, position,
orientation, brightness, contrast and line density have been used
to quantitative patterns in retinal vasculature. Based on the seven
features extracted, the segment is classified as normal or
abnormal by using Support Vector Machine Classifier [6][8]. The
obtained accuracy may be sufficient to reduce the workload of an
ophthalmologist and to prioritize the patient grading queues.
Detection and Grading of Diabetic Maculopathy Automatically in Digital Retina...paperpublications3
Abstract: Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a critical eye disease which can be regarded as manifestation of diabetes on the retina the symptoms can blur or distort the patient’s vision and are a main cause of blindness. Exudates are one of the signs of Diabetic Retinopathy. If the disease is detected early and treated promptly many of the visual loss can be prevented. This paper explains the development of an automatic fundus image processing and analytic system to facilitate diagnosis of the ophthalmologists. The algorithms to detect the optic disc; blood vessels and exudates are investigated. The proposed system extracts macula from digital retinal image using the optic disc location. Many common features such as intensity, geometric and correlations are used to distinguish between them. The system uses GLCM for feature extraction. The system uses a SVM based classifier to differentiate the retinal images in different stages of maculopathy by using the macula co-ordinates and exudates feature set.
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.
An Automated Systems for the Detection of Macular Ischemia based-Diabetic Ret...iosrjce
The proposed methodology in this paper marks out application for automatic detection of eye
diseases called Macular Ischemia using image processing techniques. In semi urban and rural areas large
percentages of people suffer from various eye diseases. For diagnoses of various eye diseases, Image processing
technique is used. . Diseases occur in Macula from retinal images have a huge type of textures, shapes and at
times they are difficult to be recognised and identified by doctors. Thus we are trying to optimize and develop
such system which is based on smart image recognition/classification algorithms. This proposed system
provides accuracy, uniformity and speed in performance and a high credence coefficient in results interpreting.
Keywords: Macular Ischemia, diagnosis, textures, consistence
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Automatic Detection of Diabetic Maculopathy from Fundus Images Using Image An...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.
Tool-Matlab
Drive database is considered for extraction of features and testing images to detect the ground truth and even images from internet.
The image features like Blood vessel area,optic disk area,entropy,energy are calculated.
Diabetic Retinopathy Detection using Neural Networkingijtsrd
The clinical and laboratory studies states that diabetic retinopathy is the major cause of permanent blindness among the aged personalities. The problem with this disease is that there is no cure for it and the only thing we can do is to detect the disease as soon as possible in order to prevent further loss of vision. In this system we propose a CNN approach for diagnosing DR from retinal images and classifying the stages of the disease .The classification is done based on the haemorrhages, micro aneurysms present in the retinal image. We train this network using a high end graphics processor unit GPU using kaggle data set and the disease classification is done, hence we can identify the the disease and prevent the further loss of vision. N Rahul | Roy Eluvathingal | Sanith Jayan K | Mr. Anil Antony "Diabetic Retinopathy Detection using Neural Networking" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-4 , June 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd31487.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/computer-engineering/31487/diabetic-retinopathy-detection-using-neural-networking/n-rahul
EXUDATES DETECTION FROM DIGITAL FUNDUS IMAGE OF DIABETIC RETINOPATHYijabjournal
The aim of this paper is to detect exudates from the digital fundus images and provide information about Non Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy is very complicated disease that occurs when the retinal blood vessels changes. Exudates are the first sign of the diabetic retinopathy which cause blindness. So it is very important to find out these exudates in fundus image. In this paper we have proposed a method which is used for segmentation of optic disc and exudates. Morphological operations are used for detection of exudates. Before this operation we are applying Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization technique. The results are compared with the standard database.
Automatic Detection of Non-Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy Using Fundus Im...iosrjce
To diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) it is the prime cause of blindness in the working age
population of the world. Detection method is proposed to detect dark or red lesions such as microaneurysms
and hemorrhages in fundus images.Developed during this work, this first is for collection of lesion data
information and was used by the ophthalmologist in marking images for database while the automatic
diagnosing and displaying the diagnosis result in a more friendly user interface and is as shown in chapter
three of this report. The primary aim of this project is to develop a system that will be able to identify patients
with BDR and PDR from either colour image or grey level image obtained from the retina of the patient. The
algorithm was tested fundus images. The Operating Characteristics (ROC) was determined for red spot lesion
and bleeding, while cross over points were only detected leaving further classification as part of future work
needed to complete this global project. Sensitivity and specificity was calculated for the algorithm is given
respectively as 96.3% and 95.1%
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
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
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.
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.
C LASSIFICATION O F D IABETES R ETINA I MAGES U SING B LOOD V ESSEL A REASIJCI JOURNAL
Retina images are obtained from the fundus camera a
nd graded by skilled professionals. However there i
s
considerable shortage of expert observers has encou
raged computer assisted monitoring. Evaluation of
blood vessels network plays an important task in a
variety of medical diagnosis. Manifestations of
numerous vascular disorders, such as diabetic retin
opathy, depend on detection of the blood vessels
network. In this work the fundus RGB image is used
for obtaining the traces of blood vessels and areas
of
blood vessels are used for detection of Diabetic Re
tinopathy (DR). The algorithm developed uses
morphological operation to extract blood vessels. M
ainly two steps are used: firstly enhancement opera
tion
is applied to original retina image to remove noise
and increase contrast of retinal blood vessels. Se
condly
morphology operations are used to take out blood ve
ssels. Experiments are conducted on publicly availa
ble
DIARETDB1 database. Experimental results obtained b
y using gray-scale images have been presented.
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.
Diabetic retinopathy is the cause for
blindness in the human society. Early detection of it prevents
blindness. Image processing techniques can reduce the work of
ophthalmologists and the tools used to detect Diabetic
Retinopathy Patients. Proliferative diabetic retinopathy is the
most advanced stage of diabetic retinopathy, and is classified by
the growth of new blood vessels. These blood vessels are
abnormal and fragile, and are susceptible to leaking blood and
fluid onto the retina, which can cause severe vision loss. First,
vessel-like patterns are segmented by using Ridge Strength
Measurement and Watershed lines. The second step is measuring
the vessel pattern obtained [5][10]. Many features that are
extracted from the blood vessels such as shape, position,
orientation, brightness, contrast and line density have been used
to quantitative patterns in retinal vasculature. Based on the seven
features extracted, the segment is classified as normal or
abnormal by using Support Vector Machine Classifier [6][8]. The
obtained accuracy may be sufficient to reduce the workload of an
ophthalmologist and to prioritize the patient grading queues.
Detection and Grading of Diabetic Maculopathy Automatically in Digital Retina...paperpublications3
Abstract: Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a critical eye disease which can be regarded as manifestation of diabetes on the retina the symptoms can blur or distort the patient’s vision and are a main cause of blindness. Exudates are one of the signs of Diabetic Retinopathy. If the disease is detected early and treated promptly many of the visual loss can be prevented. This paper explains the development of an automatic fundus image processing and analytic system to facilitate diagnosis of the ophthalmologists. The algorithms to detect the optic disc; blood vessels and exudates are investigated. The proposed system extracts macula from digital retinal image using the optic disc location. Many common features such as intensity, geometric and correlations are used to distinguish between them. The system uses GLCM for feature extraction. The system uses a SVM based classifier to differentiate the retinal images in different stages of maculopathy by using the macula co-ordinates and exudates feature set.
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.
An Automated Systems for the Detection of Macular Ischemia based-Diabetic Ret...iosrjce
The proposed methodology in this paper marks out application for automatic detection of eye
diseases called Macular Ischemia using image processing techniques. In semi urban and rural areas large
percentages of people suffer from various eye diseases. For diagnoses of various eye diseases, Image processing
technique is used. . Diseases occur in Macula from retinal images have a huge type of textures, shapes and at
times they are difficult to be recognised and identified by doctors. Thus we are trying to optimize and develop
such system which is based on smart image recognition/classification algorithms. This proposed system
provides accuracy, uniformity and speed in performance and a high credence coefficient in results interpreting.
Keywords: Macular Ischemia, diagnosis, textures, consistence
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Automatic Detection of Diabetic Maculopathy from Fundus Images Using Image An...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.
Teamed with 2 students to research and implement the automation of diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy and co-ordinated with an Ophthalmologist to verify our implementation.
Responsibilities included MATLAB coding, algorithm testing, and product documentation.
• Automation in MATLAB involving retinal image analysis to help
Ophthalmologist increase the productivity and efficiency in a clinical
environment.
• Used Image Processing concepts such as Hough Transform, Bottom Hat
Transform, Edge Detection Technique and Morphological Operators.
Provided our algorithm and documentation to our research faculty advisor to enable him to continue this research to the next phase.
The legal cause of blindness for the workingage
population in western countries is Diabetic Retinopathy - a
complication of diabetes mellitus - is a severe and wide- spread
eye disease. Digital color fundus images are becoming
increasingly important for the diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy.
In order to facilitate and improve diagnosis in different ways, this
fact opens the possibility of applying image processing techniques
.Microaneurysms is the earliest sign of DR, therefore an
algorithm able to automatically detect the microaneurysms in
fundus image captured. Since microaneurysms is a necessary
preprocessing step for a correct diagnosis. Some methods that
address this problem can be found in the literature but they have
some drawbacks like accuracy or speed. The aim of this thesis is
to develop and test a new method for detecting the
microaneurysms in retina images. To do so preprocessing, gray
level 2D feature based vessel extraction is done using neural
network by using extra neurons which is evaluated on DRIVE
database which is superior than rulebased methods. To identify
microaneurysms in an image morphological opening and image
enhancement is performed. The complete algorithm is developed
by using a MATLAB implementation and the diagnosis in an
image can be estimated with the better accuracy and in shorter
time than previous techniques
Detection of Diseases on Cotton Leaves and its Possible DiagnosisCSCJournals
In a research of identifying and diagnosing cotton disease, the pattern of disease is important part in that, various features of the images are extracted viz. the color of actual infected image, there are so many diseases occurred on the cotton leaf so the leaf color for different diseases is also different, also there are various other features related to shape of image, also there are different shape of holes are present on the leaf of the image, generally the leaf of infected image have elliptical shape of holes, so calculating the major and minor axis is the major task . The features could be extracted using self organizing feature map together with a back-propagation neural network is used to recognize color of image. This information is used to segment cotton leaf pixels within the image, now image which is under consideration is well analyzed and depending upon this software perform further analysis based on the nature of this image.
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Présentation de mon projet de fin d'année de Master de Mechatronics à De Montfort University. Mon projet portait sur la mise en place d'un porte automatique.
Presentation on diseases of cotton plants Santosh pathak
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective capsule, around the seeds of cotton plants of the genus Gossypium.
Cotton is the king of fibres, usually referred as white gold .
Current estimates for world production are about 25 million tones annually, accounting for 2.5% of the worldˋs arable land. China is the worldˋs largest producer of cotton, but most of this is used domestically
Automated Detection of Microaneurysm, Hard Exudates, and Cotton Wool Spots in...iosrjce
The The automatic identification of Image processing techniques for abnormalities in retinal images.
Its very importance in diabetic retinopathy screening. Manual annotations of retinal images are rare and
exclusive to obtain. The ophthalmoscope used direct analysis is a small and portable apparatus contained of a
light source and a set of lenses view the retina. The existence of diabetic retinopathy detected can be examining
the retina for its individual features. The first presence of diabetic retinopathy is the form of Microaneurysms.
This paper describes different works needed to the automatic identification of hard exudates and cotton wool
spots in retinal images for diabetic retinopathy detection and support vector machine (SVM) for classifying
images. This system is evaluated on a large dataset containing 130 retinal images. The proposed method Results
show that exudates were detected from a database with 96.9% sensitivity, specificity 96.1% and
97.38%accuracy
Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy using Kirsch Edge Detection and Watershed T...IJARIIT
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a common retinal complication associated with diabetics. A complication of diabetes is that it can also affect various parts of the body. When the small blood vessels have a high level of glucose in the retina, the vision will be blurred and can cause blindness eventually, which is known as diabetic retinopathy. However, if symptoms are identified in the early stage then proper treatment can be provided to prevent blindness. Usually the retinal images obtained from the fundus camera are examined directly and diagnosed. Due to this certain abnormalities due to diabetic retinopathy are not directly visible through the naked eye .Hence by using the image processing techniques these abnormalities can be extracted accurately and required treatments and precautions can be taken. And this also reduces the time for the ophthalmologists to detect the disease and give accurate treatments.
A review on implementation of algorithms for detection of diabetic retinopathyeSAT Publishing House
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A review on implementation of algorithms for detection of diabetic retinopathyeSAT Journals
Abstract Diabetes is a group of metabolic disease in which a person has high blood sugar. Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is caused by the abnormalities in the retina due to insufficient insulin in the body. It can lead to sudden vision loss due to delayed detection of retinopathy. So that Diabetic patients require regular medical checkup for effective timing of sight –saving treatment. This is continuous and stimulating research area for automated analysis of Diabetic Retinopathy in Diabetic patients. A completely automated screening system for the detection of Diabetic Retinopathy can effectively reduces the burden of the specialist and saves cost as well as time. Due to noise and other disturbances that occur during image acquisition Diabetic Retinopathy may lead to false detection and this is overcome by various image processing techniques. Further the different features are extracted which serves as the guideline to identify and grade the severity of the disease. Based on the extracted features classification of the retinal image as normal or abnormal is carried out. In this paper, we have presented detail study of various screening methods for Diabetic Retinopathy. Many researchers have made number of attempts to improve accuracy, predictivity, sensitivity and specificity. Keywords: Color Fundus Images, Diabetic Retinopathy, Exudates, Lesions.
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
Diabetic Retinopathy Detection System from Retinal Imagesijtsrd
Diabetes Mellitus is a disorder in metabolism of carbohydrates, and due to lack of the pancreatic hormone insulin sugars in the body are not oxidized to produce energy. Diabetic Retinopathy is a disorder of the retina resulting in impairment or vision loss. Improper blood sugar control is the main cause of diabetic retinopathy. That is the reason why early detection of retinopathy is crucial to prevent vision loss. Appearance of exudates, microaneurysms and hemorrhages are the early indications. In this study, we propose an algorithm for detection and classification of diabetic retinopathy. The proposed algorithm is based on the combination of various image processing techniques, which includes Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization, Green channelization, Filtering and Thresholding. The objective measurements such as homogeneity, entropy, contrast, energy, dissimilarity, asm, correlation, mean and standard deviation are computed from processed images. These measurements are finally fed to Support Vector Machine and k Nearest Neighbors classifiers for classification and their results were analysed and compared. Aditi Devanand Lotliker | Amit Patil "Diabetic Retinopathy Detection System from Retinal Images" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-2 , February 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd38353.pdf Paper Url: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/computer-engineering/38353/diabetic-retinopathy-detection-system-from-retinal-images/aditi-devanand-lotliker
Mechanical properties of hybrid fiber reinforced concrete for pavementseSAT Journals
Abstract
The effect of addition of mono fibers and hybrid fibers on the mechanical properties of concrete mixture is studied in the present
investigation. Steel fibers of 1% and polypropylene fibers 0.036% were added individually to the concrete mixture as mono fibers and
then they were added together to form a hybrid fiber reinforced concrete. Mechanical properties such as compressive, split tensile and
flexural strength were determined. The results show that hybrid fibers improve the compressive strength marginally as compared to
mono fibers. Whereas, hybridization improves split tensile strength and flexural strength noticeably.
Keywords:-Hybridization, mono fibers, steel fiber, polypropylene fiber, Improvement in mechanical properties.
Material management in construction – a case studyeSAT Journals
Abstract
The objective of the present study is to understand about all the problems occurring in the company because of improper application
of material management. In construction project operation, often there is a project cost variance in terms of the material, equipments,
manpower, subcontractor, overhead cost, and general condition. Material is the main component in construction projects. Therefore,
if the material management is not properly managed it will create a project cost variance. Project cost can be controlled by taking
corrective actions towards the cost variance. Therefore a methodology is used to diagnose and evaluate the procurement process
involved in material management and launch a continuous improvement was developed and applied. A thorough study was carried
out along with study of cases, surveys and interviews to professionals involved in this area. As a result, a methodology for diagnosis
and improvement was proposed and tested in selected projects. The results obtained show that the main problem of procurement is
related to schedule delays and lack of specified quality for the project. To prevent this situation it is often necessary to dedicate
important resources like money, personnel, time, etc. To monitor and control the process. A great potential for improvement was
detected if state of the art technologies such as, electronic mail, electronic data interchange (EDI), and analysis were applied to the
procurement process. These helped to eliminate the root causes for many types of problems that were detected.
Managing drought short term strategies in semi arid regions a case studyeSAT Journals
Abstract
Drought management needs multidisciplinary action. Interdisciplinary efforts among the experts in various fields of the droughts
prone areas are helpful to achieve tangible and permanent solution for this recurring problem. The Gulbarga district having the total
area around 16, 240 sq.km, and accounts 8.45 per cent of the Karnataka state area. The district has been situated with latitude 17º 19'
60" North and longitude of 76 º 49' 60" east. The district is situated entirely on the Deccan plateau positioned at a height of 300 to
750 m above MSL. Sub-tropical, semi-arid type is one among the drought prone districts of Karnataka State. The drought
management is very important for a district like Gulbarga. In this paper various short term strategies are discussed to mitigate the
drought condition in the district.
Keywords: Drought, South-West monsoon, Semi-Arid, Rainfall, Strategies etc.
Life cycle cost analysis of overlay for an urban road in bangaloreeSAT Journals
Abstract
Pavements are subjected to severe condition of stresses and weathering effects from the day they are constructed and opened to traffic
mainly due to its fatigue behavior and environmental effects. Therefore, pavement rehabilitation is one of the most important
components of entire road systems. This paper highlights the design of concrete pavement with added mono fibers like polypropylene,
steel and hybrid fibres for a widened portion of existing concrete pavement and various overlay alternatives for an existing
bituminous pavement in an urban road in Bangalore. Along with this, Life cycle cost analyses at these sections are done by Net
Present Value (NPV) method to identify the most feasible option. The results show that though the initial cost of construction of
concrete overlay is high, over a period of time it prove to be better than the bituminous overlay considering the whole life cycle cost.
The economic analysis also indicates that, out of the three fibre options, hybrid reinforced concrete would be economical without
compromising the performance of the pavement.
Keywords: - Fatigue, Life cycle cost analysis, Net Present Value method, Overlay, Rehabilitation
Laboratory studies of dense bituminous mixes ii with reclaimed asphalt materialseSAT Journals
Abstract
The issue of growing demand on our nation’s roadways over that past couple of decades, decreasing budgetary funds, and the need to
provide a safe, efficient, and cost effective roadway system has led to a dramatic increase in the need to rehabilitate our existing
pavements and the issue of building sustainable road infrastructure in India. With these emergency of the mentioned needs and this
are today’s burning issue and has become the purpose of the study.
In the present study, the samples of existing bituminous layer materials were collected from NH-48(Devahalli to Hassan) site.The
mixtures were designed by Marshall Method as per Asphalt institute (MS-II) at 20% and 30% Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP).
RAP material was blended with virgin aggregate such that all specimens tested for the, Dense Bituminous Macadam-II (DBM-II)
gradation as per Ministry of Roads, Transport, and Highways (MoRT&H) and cost analysis were carried out to know the economics.
Laboratory results and analysis showed the use of recycled materials showed significant variability in Marshall Stability, and the
variability increased with the increase in RAP content. The saving can be realized from utilization of recycled materials as per the
methodology, the reduction in the total cost is 19%, 30%, comparing with the virgin mixes.
Keywords: Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement, Marshall Stability, MS-II, Dense Bituminous Macadam-II
Laboratory investigation of expansive soil stabilized with natural inorganic ...eSAT Journals
Abstract
Soil stabilization has proven to be one of the oldest techniques to improve the soil properties. Literature review conducted revealed
that uses of natural inorganic stabilizers are found to be one of the best options for soil stabilization. In this regard an attempt has
been made to evaluate the influence of RBI-81 stabilizer on properties of black cotton soil through laboratory investigations. Black
cotton soil with varying percentages of RBI-81 viz., 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, and 2.5 percent were studied for moisture density relationships
and strength behaviour of soils. Also the effect of curing period was evaluated as literature review clearly emphasized the strength
gain of soils stabilized with RBI-81 over a period of time. The results obtained shows that the unconfined compressive strength of
specimens treated with RBI-81 increased approximately by 250% for a curing period of 28 days as compared to virgin soil. Further
the CBR value improved approximately by 400%. The studies indicated an increasing trend for soil strength behaviour with
increasing percentage of RBI-81 suggesting its potential applications in soil stabilization.
Influence of reinforcement on the behavior of hollow concrete block masonry p...eSAT Journals
Abstract
Reinforced masonry was developed to exploit the strength potential of masonry and to solve its lack of tensile strength. Experimental
and analytical studies have been carried out to investigate the effect of reinforcement on the behavior of hollow concrete block
masonry prisms under compression and to predict ultimate failure compressive strength. In the numerical program, three dimensional
non-linear finite elements (FE) model based on the micro-modeling approach is developed for both unreinforced and reinforced
masonry prisms using ANSYS (14.5). The proposed FE model uses multi-linear stress-strain relationships to model the non-linear
behavior of hollow concrete block, mortar, and grout. Willam-Warnke’s five parameter failure theory has been adopted to model the
failure of masonry materials. The comparison of the numerical and experimental results indicates that the FE models can successfully
capture the highly nonlinear behavior of the physical specimens and accurately predict their strength and failure mechanisms.
Keywords: Structural masonry, Hollow concrete block prism, grout, Compression failure, Finite element method,
Numerical modeling.
Influence of compaction energy on soil stabilized with chemical stabilizereSAT Journals
Abstract
Increase in traffic along with heavier magnitude of wheel loads cause rapid deterioration in pavements. There is a need to improve
density, strength of soil subgrade and other pavement layers. In this study an attempt is made to improve the properties of locally
available loamy soil using twin approaches viz., i) increasing the compaction of soil and ii) treating the soil with chemical stabilizer.
Laboratory studies are carried out on both untreated and treated soil samples compacted by different compaction efforts. Studies
show that increase in compaction effort results in increase in density of soil. However in soil treated with chemical stabilizer, rate of
increase in density is not significant. The soil treated with chemical stabilizer exhibits improvement in both strength and performance
properties.
Keywords: compaction, density, subgradestabilization, resilient modulus
Geographical information system (gis) for water resources managementeSAT Journals
Abstract
Water resources projects are inherited with overlapping and at times conflicting objectives. These projects are often of varied sizes
ranging from major projects with command areas of millions of hectares to very small projects implemented at the local level. Thus,
in all these projects there is seldom proper coordination which is essential for ensuring collective sustainability.
Integrated watershed development and management is the accepted answer but in turn requires a comprehensive framework that can
enable planning process involving all the stakeholders at different levels and scales is compulsory. Such a unified hydrological
framework is essential to evaluate the cause and effect of all the proposed actions within the drainage basins.
The present paper describes a hydrological framework developed in the form of a Hydrologic Information System (HIS) which is
intended to meet the specific information needs of the various line departments of a typical State connected with water related aspects.
The HIS consist of a hydrologic information database coupled with tools for collating primary and secondary data and tools for
analyzing and visualizing the data and information. The HIS also incorporates hydrological model base for indirect assessment of
various entities of water balance in space and time. The framework would be maintained and updated to reflect fully the most
accurate ground truth data and the infrastructure requirements for planning and management.
Keywords: Hydrological Information System (HIS); WebGIS; Data Model; Web Mapping Services
Forest type mapping of bidar forest division, karnataka using geoinformatics ...eSAT Journals
Abstract
The study demonstrate the potentiality of satellite remote sensing technique for the generation of baseline information on forest types
including tree plantation details in Bidar forest division, Karnataka covering an area of 5814.60Sq.Kms. The Total Area of Bidar
forest division is 5814Sq.Kms analysis of the satellite data in the study area reveals that about 84% of the total area is Covered by
crop land, 1.778% of the area is covered by dry deciduous forest, 1.38 % of mixed plantation, which is very threatening to the
environmental stability of the forest, future plantation site has been mapped. With the use of latest Geo-informatics technology proper
and exact condition of the trees can be observed and necessary precautions can be taken for future plantation works in an appropriate
manner
Keywords:-RS, GIS, GPS, Forest Type, Tree Plantation
Factors influencing compressive strength of geopolymer concreteeSAT Journals
Abstract
To study effects of several factors on the properties of fly ash based geopolymer concrete on the compressive strength and also the
cost comparison with the normal concrete. The test variables were molarities of sodium hydroxide(NaOH) 8M,14M and 16M, ratio of
NaOH to sodium silicate (Na2SiO3) 1, 1.5, 2 and 2.5, alkaline liquid to fly ash ratio 0.35 and 0.40 and replacement of water in
Na2SiO3 solution by 10%, 20% and 30% were used in the present study. The test results indicated that the highest compressive
strength 54 MPa was observed for 16M of NaOH, ratio of NaOH to Na2SiO3 2.5 and alkaline liquid to fly ash ratio of 0.35. Lowest
compressive strength of 27 MPa was observed for 8M of NaOH, ratio of NaOH to Na2SiO3 is 1 and alkaline liquid to fly ash ratio of
0.40. Alkaline liquid to fly ash ratio of 0.35, water replacement of 10% and 30% for 8 and 16 molarity of NaOH and has resulted in
compressive strength of 36 MPa and 20 MPa respectively. Superplasticiser dosage of 2 % by weight of fly ash has given higher
strength in all cases.
Keywords: compressive strength, alkaline liquid, fly ash
Experimental investigation on circular hollow steel columns in filled with li...eSAT Journals
Abstract
Composite Circular hollow Steel tubes with and without GFRP infill for three different grades of Light weight concrete are tested for
ultimate load capacity and axial shortening , under Cyclic loading. Steel tubes are compared for different lengths, cross sections and
thickness. Specimens were tested separately after adopting Taguchi’s L9 (Latin Squares) Orthogonal array in order to save the initial
experimental cost on number of specimens and experimental duration. Analysis was carried out using ANN (Artificial Neural
Network) technique with the assistance of Mini Tab- a statistical soft tool. Comparison for predicted, experimental & ANN output is
obtained from linear regression plots. From this research study, it can be concluded that *Cross sectional area of steel tube has most
significant effect on ultimate load carrying capacity, *as length of steel tube increased- load carrying capacity decreased & *ANN
modeling predicted acceptable results. Thus ANN tool can be utilized for predicting ultimate load carrying capacity for composite
columns.
Keywords: Light weight concrete, GFRP, Artificial Neural Network, Linear Regression, Back propagation, orthogonal
Array, Latin Squares
Experimental behavior of circular hsscfrc filled steel tubular columns under ...eSAT Journals
Abstract
This paper presents an outlook on experimental behavior and a comparison with predicted formula on the behaviour of circular
concentrically loaded self-consolidating fibre reinforced concrete filled steel tube columns (HSSCFRC). Forty-five specimens were
tested. The main parameters varied in the tests are: (1) percentage of fiber (2) tube diameter or width to wall thickness ratio (D/t
from 15 to 25) (3) L/d ratio from 2.97 to 7.04 the results from these predictions were compared with the experimental data. The
experimental results) were also validated in this study.
Keywords: Self-compacting concrete; Concrete-filled steel tube; axial load behavior; Ultimate capacity.
Evaluation of punching shear in flat slabseSAT Journals
Abstract
Flat-slab construction has been widely used in construction today because of many advantages that it offers. The basic philosophy in
the design of flat slab is to consider only gravity forces; this method ignores the effect of punching shear due to unbalanced moments
at the slab column junction which is critical. An attempt has been made to generate generalized design sheets which accounts both
punching shear due to gravity loads and unbalanced moments for cases (a) interior column; (b) edge column (bending perpendicular
to shorter edge); (c) edge column (bending parallel to shorter edge); (d) corner column. These design sheets are prepared as per
codal provisions of IS 456-2000. These design sheets will be helpful in calculating the shear reinforcement to be provided at the
critical section which is ignored in many design offices. Apart from its usefulness in evaluating punching shear and the necessary
shear reinforcement, the design sheets developed will enable the designer to fix the depth of flat slab during the initial phase of the
design.
Keywords: Flat slabs, punching shear, unbalanced moment.
Evaluation of performance of intake tower dam for recent earthquake in indiaeSAT Journals
Abstract
Intake towers are typically tall, hollow, reinforced concrete structures and form entrance to reservoir outlet works. A parametric
study on dynamic behavior of circular cylindrical towers can be carried out to study the effect of depth of submergence, wall thickness
and slenderness ratio, and also effect on tower considering dynamic analysis for time history function of different soil condition and
by Goyal and Chopra accounting interaction effects of added hydrodynamic mass of surrounding and inside water in intake tower of
dam
Key words: Hydrodynamic mass, Depth of submergence, Reservoir, Time history analysis,
Evaluation of operational efficiency of urban road network using travel time ...eSAT Journals
Abstract
Efficiency of the road network system is analyzed by travel time reliability measures. The study overlooks on an important measure of
travel time reliability and prioritizing Tiruchirappalli road network. Traffic volume and travel time were collected using license plate
matching method. Travel time measures were estimated from average travel time and 95th travel time. Effect of non-motorized vehicle
on efficiency of road system was evaluated. Relation between buffer time index and traffic volume was created. Travel time model has
been developed and travel time measure was validated. Then service quality of road sections in network were graded based on
travel time reliability measures.
Keywords: Buffer Time Index (BTI); Average Travel Time (ATT); Travel Time Reliability (TTR); Buffer Time (BT).
Estimation of surface runoff in nallur amanikere watershed using scs cn methodeSAT Journals
Abstract
The development of watershed aims at productive utilization of all the available natural resources in the entire area extending from
ridge line to stream outlet. The per capita availability of land for cultivation has been decreasing over the years. Therefore, water and
the related land resources must be developed, utilized and managed in an integrated and comprehensive manner. Remote sensing and
GIS techniques are being increasingly used for planning, management and development of natural resources. The study area, Nallur
Amanikere watershed geographically lies between 110 38’ and 110 52’ N latitude and 760 30’ and 760 50’ E longitude with an area of
415.68 Sq. km. The thematic layers such as land use/land cover and soil maps were derived from remotely sensed data and overlayed
through ArcGIS software to assign the curve number on polygon wise. The daily rainfall data of six rain gauge stations in and around
the watershed (2001-2011) was used to estimate the daily runoff from the watershed using Soil Conservation Service - Curve Number
(SCS-CN) method. The runoff estimated from the SCS-CN model was then used to know the variation of runoff potential with different
land use/land cover and with different soil conditions.
Keywords: Watershed, Nallur watershed, Surface runoff, Rainfall-Runoff, SCS-CN, Remote Sensing, GIS.
Estimation of morphometric parameters and runoff using rs & gis techniqueseSAT Journals
Abstract
Land and water are the two vital natural resources, the optimal management of these resources with minimum adverse environmental
impact are essential not only for sustainable development but also for human survival. Satellite remote sensing with geographic
information system has a pragmatic approach to map and generate spatial input layers of predicting response behavior and yield of
watershed. Hence, in the present study an attempt has been made to understand the hydrological process of the catchment at the
watershed level by drawing the inferences from moprhometric analysis and runoff. The study area chosen for the present study is
Yagachi catchment situated in Chickamaglur and Hassan district lies geographically at a longitude 75⁰52’08.77”E and
13⁰10’50.77”N latitude. It covers an area of 559.493 Sq.km. Morphometric analysis is carried out to estimate morphometric
parameters at Micro-watershed to understand the hydrological response of the catchment at the Micro-watershed level. Daily runoff
is estimated using USDA SCS curve number model for a period of 10 years from 2001 to 2010. The rainfall runoff relationship of the
study shows there is a positive correlation.
Keywords: morphometric analysis, runoff, remote sensing and GIS, SCS - method
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Effect of variation of plastic hinge length on the results of non linear anal...eSAT Journals
Abstract The nonlinear Static procedure also well known as pushover analysis is method where in monotonically increasing loads are applied to the structure till the structure is unable to resist any further load. It is a popular tool for seismic performance evaluation of existing and new structures. In literature lot of research has been carried out on conventional pushover analysis and after knowing deficiency efforts have been made to improve it. But actual test results to verify the analytically obtained pushover results are rarely available. It has been found that some amount of variation is always expected to exist in seismic demand prediction of pushover analysis. Initial study is carried out by considering user defined hinge properties and default hinge length. Attempt is being made to assess the variation of pushover analysis results by considering user defined hinge properties and various hinge length formulations available in literature and results compared with experimentally obtained results based on test carried out on a G+2 storied RCC framed structure. For the present study two geometric models viz bare frame and rigid frame model is considered and it is found that the results of pushover analysis are very sensitive to geometric model and hinge length adopted. Keywords: Pushover analysis, Base shear, Displacement, hinge length, moment curvature analysis
Effect of use of recycled materials on indirect tensile strength of asphalt c...eSAT Journals
Abstract
Depletion of natural resources and aggregate quarries for the road construction is a serious problem to procure materials. Hence
recycling or reuse of material is beneficial. On emphasizing development in sustainable construction in the present era, recycling of
asphalt pavements is one of the effective and proven rehabilitation processes. For the laboratory investigations reclaimed asphalt
pavement (RAP) from NH-4 and crumb rubber modified binder (CRMB-55) was used. Foundry waste was used as a replacement to
conventional filler. Laboratory tests were conducted on asphalt concrete mixes with 30, 40, 50, and 60 percent replacement with RAP.
These test results were compared with conventional mixes and asphalt concrete mixes with complete binder extracted RAP
aggregates. Mix design was carried out by Marshall Method. The Marshall Tests indicated highest stability values for asphalt
concrete (AC) mixes with 60% RAP. The optimum binder content (OBC) decreased with increased in RAP in AC mixes. The Indirect
Tensile Strength (ITS) for AC mixes with RAP also was found to be higher when compared to conventional AC mixes at 300C.
Keywords: Reclaimed asphalt pavement, Foundry waste, Recycling, Marshall Stability, Indirect tensile strength.
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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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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
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• Compatible with commercial and Defence aviation CCR system.
• Remote control system for accessing CCR and allied system over serial or TCP.
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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.
Vaccine management system project report documentation..pdfKamal Acharya
The Division of Vaccine and Immunization is facing increasing difficulty monitoring vaccines and other commodities distribution once they have been distributed from the national stores. With the introduction of new vaccines, more challenges have been anticipated with this additions posing serious threat to the already over strained vaccine supply chain system in Kenya.
Sachpazis:Terzaghi Bearing Capacity Estimation in simple terms with Calculati...Dr.Costas Sachpazis
Terzaghi's soil bearing capacity theory, developed by Karl Terzaghi, is a fundamental principle in geotechnical engineering used to determine the bearing capacity of shallow foundations. This theory provides a method to calculate the ultimate bearing capacity of soil, which is the maximum load per unit area that the soil can support without undergoing shear failure. The Calculation HTML Code included.
Student information management system project report ii.pdfKamal Acharya
Our project explains about the student management. This project mainly explains the various actions related to student details. This project shows some ease in adding, editing and deleting the student details. It also provides a less time consuming process for viewing, adding, editing and deleting the marks of the students.
Overview of the fundamental roles in Hydropower generation and the components involved in wider Electrical Engineering.
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Review of methods for diabetic retinopathy detection and severity classification
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REVIEW OF METHODS FOR DIABETIC RETINOPATHY DETECTION
AND SEVERITY CLASSIFICATION
Madhura Jagannath Paranjpe1
, M N Kakatkar2
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ME student, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication, Sinhgad College of Engineering, University of Pune,
Pune, India
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Professor, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication, Sinhgad College of Engineering, University of Pune,
Pune, India
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
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1. INTRODUCTION
The population of diabetic patients has been increasing against
the total world population. Uncontrolled and prolonged diabetes
can damage the microvasculature of the vital organs of the body
such as eyes and kidneys. The damage caused to the tiny blood
vessels in the retina of the human eye, is known as Diabetic
Retinopathy. Due to elevated amounts of glucose circulating
through the body, the walls of blood vessels become damaged
and several anomalies such as Microaneurysms, hemorrhages,
Hard Exudates, Cotton wool spots start developing at various
phases of retinopathy. The patient affected by Diabetic
Retinopathy may not experience visual impairment until the
disease has progressed to a severe stage, when the treatment is
less effective. Therefore the early detection and the regular
follow-ups is necessary to treat diabetic retinopathy.
The earliest symptoms of Retinopathy are the Micro aneurysms,
which occur due to dilatations of the blood capillaries and they
appear as dark red spots on the retina. Hemorrhages occur when
the microaneurysms burst. Bright-yellow colored Lesions such
as hard exudates occur as a result of fluid leaking into the
retinal surface from the capillaries or from Microaneurysms.
Another bright white colored lesions, called the soft Exudates
or cotton wool spots occur occlusions of the nerve fibre layer.
Diabetic Retinopathy is a progressive disease. The first stage of
retinopathy is known as Non-Proliferative Retinopathy, during
which the retinal lesions appear and increase as the disease
progresses. Initially, at least one microaneurysm is seen. With
the progression of the disease, the blood vessels become
blocked and are short of blood supply. In an attempt to create
new paths for blood supply, abnormal and fragile new blood
vessels are formed on the surface of retina in the stage of
Proliferative Retinopathy that might leak blood into retina
causing permanent blindness. The various lesions associated
with diabetic retinopathy are as shown in the figure below.
Fig. 1 Retinal lesions associated with diabetic retinopathy
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Fig.1 shows the retinal image of a diabetic eye with anatomical
features such as the optic disc and blood vessels and Fovea, and
the abnormal features such as hemorrhages, Exudates,
Microaneurysms.
The process of Automatic Diabetic Retinopathy detection
involves detection and segmentation of the abnormal features
from the input images. The general block diagram for the
automatic diabetic retinopathy detection and classification is as
shown in Fig. 2. The input image from the retinal image
database is preprocessed to extract the grayscale or green
component of the image, noise removal and to enhance the
contrast of the image for further processing. The next step is to
localize the retinal components such as Optic Disc, Fovea and
blood vessels. In the next step, abnormal features such as
micro-aneurysms, hemorrhages and hard exudates and cotton-
wool spots are extracted. These features are analyzed with
different techniques to perform severity classification of the
disease as normal, mild, moderate, severe Non proliferative
Retinopathy (NPDR) and Proliferative Retinopathy (PDR).
Fig.2 General Block diagram for diabetic retinopathy detection
and severity classification
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
There are several approaches to diabetic retinopathy detection
and classification. Many techniques based on mathematical
morphology, neural networks, pattern recognition, region
growing techniques, fuzzy C-means clustering, Gabor filter
banks are available from the literature. Blood vessels were
detected using two-dimensional matched filter [1]. Automatic
extraction of the vasculature was done using a sparse tracking
method [2]. Automatic detection and the classification of
abnormalities on the vascular network was done by using Gabor
filter bank outputs at several finer scales to obtain a scale and
angle method of representation of energy variations, to classify
the mild, moderate and severe stages of retinopathy [3].
Sinthanayothin developed a method based on recursive region
growing methods and Moat operator to detect Hemorrhages,
Microaneurysms and exudates [4]. Several Optic disc detection
methods were proposed. Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
based approaches were derived where the candidate regions for
optic disc were derived by clustering of brighter pixels.PCA
was applied to calculate the minimum distance between the
image and its projection to find the optic disc center [5]. Optic
Disc detection was also done using Hough Transform [6].
Microaneurysms and hemorrhages were detected using
morphological operations with a structuring element and top-
hat transformation [7]. Mahalanobis classifier was used to
identify hemorrhages and microaneurysms [8]. Image
processing techniques in combination with pattern recognition
techniques were used to detect microaneurysms and
hemorrhages in fundus images [9]. Higher Gray level variations
of the exudates and morphological reconstruction methods were
used in the extraction of exudates [10]. Automatic exudates and
cotton-wool spots detection system is developed in [11]. A
neural network based approach was used exudates detection
[12]. A fuzzy C-means clustering method [13] and
computational intelligence based approach was proposed for
detection of exudates [14]. Acharya [15] classified Diabetic
Retinopathy stages as normal, mild, moderate, severe and
proliferative. The feature extraction was done using Higher
Order Spectra (HOS).A multi-layer perceptron was used to
classify normal and diabetic retinopathy stages [4]. Kahai
developed a decision support system, using bayes optimality
criterion to detect Microaneurysms that enables the early
detection of diabetic retinopathy [16]. Area and perimeter
calculated from the RGB components of the blood vessels were
used as features to classify normal, mild, moderate, severe and
proliferative stages of retinopathy using a feed forward neural
network [17]. Nayak et al. used features such as area of
exudates and the area of blood vessels together with texture
parameters and features are input to the neural network to
classify images into normal, Non-Proliferative Retinopathy and
Proliferative Retinopathy [18]. Automatic classification into
normal, mild, moderate, severe and proliferative classes of
Diabetic Retinopathy was done by calculating the areas of
several features such as, hemorrhages, microaneurysms,
exudates and blood vessel with support vector machine as
classifier [19]. Automated diagnosis system is developed to
detect retinal blood vessels, and pathologies, such as exudates
and microaneurysms together with certain texture properties
using image processing techniques. The area of lesions and
texture features are then used to construct a feature vector that
is input to the multiclass support vector machine (SVM) for
classifying images into normal, mild, moderate, severe and
proliferative categories [20].
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3. OVERVIEW OF DIABETIC RETINOPATHY
DETECTION AND SEVERITY CLASSIFICATION
Automated diabetic retinopathy detection is a computer vision
problem. It involves the extraction of retinal lesions such as
microaneurysms, hemorrhages, exudates. The accurate
detection of these features is faced with some challenges.
1. Similarity of retinal lesions to the landmark features such as
blood vessels, optic disc and the macula (fovea).
2. Varying illumination and contrast changes across the image.
The hemorrhages and microaneurysms to have same color as
the blood vessels. Larger hemorrhages appear to have same
color as that of blood vessel network, but have different
geometrical features. But the smaller microaneurysms and
hemorrhages might present similar color, contrast and
geometrical features as the thin and smaller blood vessels,
making it difficult to discriminate between them. The optic disc
is a bright region with circular geometry, which shares the same
color feature as that of the exudates. The fovea is a dark red
region at the center of macula which is similar in color as that
of micro-aneurysms and hemorrhages. These retinal
components must be detected and localized and segmented
such that anomalous features can be detected accurately.
Non uniform illumination and contrast variations across the
image pose difficulties, as retinal feature extraction algorithms
work accurately on images with good contrast and no
background variations. Therefore, robust preprocessing
operations are required to tackle this problem. The presence of
non retinopathic features which may contain similar color,
contrast as that of other retinal features, might lead to a non
retinopathic feature be wrongly classified as a retinopathic
feature. Presence of artifacts that might occur due to improper
image acquisition conditions can be confused for a retinopathic
feature. In some images, hemorrhages and exudates may exhibit
very little color differences, which demands robust color
normalization techniques.
The important steps in the detection and severity classification
process are as follows:
1. Pre-processing for contrast enhancement and
removal of noise.
2. Detection, Localization of the Optic Disc and its
segmentation
3. Retinal vascular tree segmentation
4. Localization of fovea region
5. Abnormal Feature Extraction
6. Classification of different stages of Diabetic
Retinopathy
7. Evaluation of the performance of classifier.
3.1 Preprocessing
The main aim of preprocessing methods is to achieve image
normalization by attenuation of intensity variations in the input
images. The original images contain non-uniform spatial
variations across the image. Several models have been
developed to attenuate such variations. Adaptive contrast
enhancement techniques, mathematical model representation of
the non uniformness of the image, image filtering techniques
have been developed. Correction methods for non-uniform
illumination, subtract the non-uniform component of the image
from the original image to filter the variations. Several
approaches assume the image to be consisting of foreground
and background components. Retinal vasculature, lesions and
the optic disc constitute the foreground and the remaining
features constitute the background. Shade correction algorithms
generate background approximation using mean filtering. Then
the original green channel image is subtracted or divided by the
background to achieve shade correction.
Since color is an important feature to differentiate between
different lesions, normalization of color descriptor is important
to minimize the color variations in the images. The alternative
approach to reducing variations is the histogram equalization by
redistribution of the gray levels to achieve uniform distribution
of pixel intensities. Contrast enhancement methods enhance the
contrast of the image and are usually applied on the low
contrast images.
3.2 Localization of the Optic Disc and Segmentation of
the Disc
To differentiate the exudates from the optic disc, localizing the
disc and segmentation of the optic disc is essential. This process
consists of finding approximate optic disc center. The problem
is the distraction caused by other larger lesions such as
exudates. In [1], the optic disc was considered to be a region
having large cluster of bright pixels. Circular Hough transform
and Principal Component Analysis are the other methods to
detect the optic disc. Morphological operators followed by
active contour model to segment the optic disc have also been
used for optic disc segmentation.
3.3 Detection of Fovea
Fovea is the darkest region in the retina and its color is similar
to blood vessels and microaneurysms and hemorrhages.
Therefore the fovea must be localized. In [5], model based
methods have been used.
3.4 Segmentation of Retinal Blood Vessels
Retinal vasculature segmentation is done by applying
morphological operators and edge detection. The matched filter
approach [1] is an improvement over the sobel edge operators
and morphological operators. Vessel segmentation using
mathematical morphology and curvature evaluation methods
provided better results than matched filters. Supervised
classification approaches using neural networks are based on
pixel classification, in which a pixel feature vector is
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constructed for each pixel to classify the pixel to be belonging
to vessel or non-vessel [4]. Techniques using PCA, Gabor
filters and Bayesian classifiers are used in supervised
classification.
3.5 Feature Extraction for Diabetic Retinopathy
After the optic disc, fovea and blood vessel network
localization the exudates, hemorrhages and microaneurysms are
extracted from the images.
1. Microaneurysms and hemorrhages detection: The detection
of these dark red regions requires the removal of other brighter
regions such as exudates and optic disc. Initially,
Morphological operations using a structuring element, top-hat
transformation were the methods used. Recursive region
growing methods with the moat operator provided a sensitivity
of 77.5% and specificity of 88.7%. Pattern recognition
techniques that compare the human and machine performance
in detecting the abnormalities have been developed.
2. Detection of hard Exudates and cotton wool spots: Exudates
that are formed due to lipid, protein accumulated over the retina
and are brightly colored. Therefore, the other brighter regions
i.e., blood vessel network and the optic disc must be removed
before extracting exudates Recursive Region growing
algorithms, which assume pixel adjacency in terms of similarity
in gray levels, were used to detect the boundary of a region [4].
Other methods using morphological reconstruction, neural
networks, Fuzzy c-means clustering and computational
intelligence techniques are also used. Cotton wool spots are
also the bright white colored features and a thresholding
scheme was employed in [11] to differentiate between the two.
3. Texture information: Texture provides a measure of
properties of an image, as smooth, coarse or regular with the
uniform variation of pixel intensities. Structural, statistical and
spectral are the three ways to measure the texture. Statistical
methods employ the spatial relationship between the pixels
intensities. Measures such as entropy, contrast, homogeneity,
correlation, energy are extracted from the Gray level Co-
occurrence matrix. Different texture measures that explain the
gray-level variations existing among the features can be used to
detect of Diabetic Retinopathy severity.
3.6 Classification of Diabetic Retinopathy Severity
In the Mild NPDR stage, at least one microaneurysm with or
without hemorrhages, exudates might be present. The moderate
NPDR consists of large numbers of hemorrhages and
microaneurysms with the presence of exudates. In severe
retinopathy, microaneurysms and hemorrhages occupying all
four quadrants of the retina with vascular abnormalities In the
most severe stage known as Proliferative Retinopathy,
abnormal, new blood vessels grow on retinal surface. The
different stages of retinopathy are as shown in the diagram
below.
Fig 3(a) normal Fig.3 (b) mild NPDR
Fig.3 (c) moderate NPDR Fig 3 (d) severe NPDR
Fig.3 (e) PDR
After the features are extracted, according to the extent of
features extracted, classification is done using different types of
classifiers, such as neural networks, support vector machines.
Efficiency of the classifier is calculated in terms of its
efficiency to classify normal images into normal and abnormal
images as abnormal. Area and perimeter of blood vessels were
used as the input parameters to multilayer feed forward neural
network for classification into different retinopathy stages.
From the literature, area of blood vessels, exudates and texture
properties are used to classify the stages as normal, non-
Proliferative Retinopathy (NPDR) and Proliferative
Retinopathy (PDR). As seen from the literature, classification
accuracy improves when all the features, i.e. blood vessels,
microaneurysms, hemorrhages, exudates along with texture
information are used in classification.
3.7 Evaluation of the Performance of Classifier
Several parameters such as True Positive (TP), True Negative
(TN), False Positive (FP) and False Negative (FN) are
calculated. These parameters are calculated by comparing the
classifier outcome with the number of normal and abnormal
images from the database. For an abnormal image, the result is
true positive if the outcome of classification is abnormal and the
result is False Negative (FN) if the classifier output is normal.
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For normal image, the result is True Negative (TN), if the
classifier output is normal and False Positive (FP) if the
classification outcome is abnormal. In a given image dataset,
these parameters, TP,TN, FP, FN are used in the calculation of
the accuracy, Sensitivity (SN) and specificity (SP).
Performance of the classifier can be measured in terms of
sensitivity, specificity and accuracy.
1. Sensitivity = TP / (TP+FN)
Sensitivity is measure of the percentage of abnormal images
classified as abnormal.
2. Specificity = TN / (TN+FP)
Specificity gives the measure of normal images that are
classified correctly as normal.
3. Accuracy = (TP+TN)/ (TP+FN+TN+FP)
It is the measure of total number of well classified normal and
abnormal images.
4. IMAGE DATASETS USED FOR THE
EXPERIMENTATION AND RESEARCH
The Efficiency and the performance evaluation of the algorithm
used for the feature extraction can be analyzed if the results are
compared with the Ground truth or manually labeled images
available from the databases. The manual segmentations are
created by handmade markings by trained specialists and
ophthalmologists. The difference between the manual
segmentations and the segmentation result of the algorithm
evaluates the performance of the algorithm. There are several
databases which contain ground truth results for blood vessel
segmentations, Microaneurysm, exudates segmentations and to
evaluate the efficiency of classification of diabetic retinopathy
severity. The DRIVE database, (Digital Retinal Images for
Vessel Extraction) is a publicly available database, and consists
of 40 color fundus images, stored in the TIFF format. The
database is divided into training and test images. Another
database called the STARE also consists of manual vessel
segmentations, for each of the images. DIARETDB1 and
DIARETDB0 contain normal images and abnormal images
containing symptoms of retinopathy. The images are
1500x1152 pixels wide and are stored in PNG format. Other
important datasets are MESSIDOR, REVIEW and HEI-MED.
5. CONCLUSIONS
The generalized framework presented in this paper reviews the
various methods and techniques used in the diabetic retinopathy
detection and severity classification. Section II reviews various
approaches and the methodologies taken up by the researchers
to detect diabetic retinopathy. Section III presents the process of
diabetic retinopathy detection and highlights different
challenges associated with it. The section IV provides an
overview of different datasets used for experimentation and
research purpose.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I wish to express my sincere thanks and gratitude to respected
guide Mr. M. N. Kakatkar, Professor in Department of
Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Sinhgad
college of Engineering, Wadgaon (BK), Pune-41, for the
motivation, technical suggestions and constructive criticism,
which enabled to work harder towards excellence.
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