This document describes a system for detecting microaneurysms in retinal images to aid in the diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy. It first discusses diabetic retinopathy and the need for automated detection systems. It then outlines the proposed system, which uses preprocessing like vessel enhancement, thresholding and morphological operations to detect microaneurysms. A neural network is used to classify pixels in retinal images into vessel and non-vessel after extracting 2D features. The algorithm is implemented in MATLAB and can detect microaneurysms with better accuracy and faster than previous methods. Public retinal image databases are also discussed to test and evaluate such algorithms.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Early Detection of High Blood Pressure and Diabetic Retinopathy on Retinal Fu...IJAAS Team
In this paper we present a lifting wavelet based CBRIR image retrieval system that uses color and texture as visual features to describe the content of a retinal fundus images. Our contribution is of three directions. First, we use lifting wavelets 9/7 for lossy and SPL5/3 for lossless to extract texture features from arbitrary shaped retinal fundus regions separated from an image to increase the system effectiveness. This process is performed offline before query processing, therefore to answer a query our system does not need to search the entire database images; instead just a number of similar class type patient images are required to be searched for image similarity. Third, to further increase the retrieval accuracy of our system, we combine the region based features extracted from image regions, with global features extracted from the whole image, which are texture using lifting wavelet and HSV color histograms. Our proposed system has the advantage of increasing the retrieval accuracy and decreasing the retrieval time. The experimental evaluation of the system is based on a db1 online retinal fundus color image database. From the experimental results, it is evident that our system performs significantly better accuracy as compared with traditional wavelet based systems. In our simulation analysis, we provide a comparison between retrieval results based on features extracted from the whole image using lossless 5/3 lifting wavelet and features extracted using lossless 9/7 lifting wavelet and using traditional wavelet. The results demonstrate that each type of feature is effective for a particular type of disease of retinal fundus images according to its semantic contents, and using lossless 5/3 lifting wavelet of them gives better retrieval results for almost all semantic classes and outperform 4-10% more accuracy than traditional wavelet.
A Novel Advanced Approach Using Morphological Image Processing Technique for ...CSCJournals
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a common complication of diabetes mellitus and can lead to irreversible blindness. To date, DR is the leading cause of blindness and visual impairment among working adults globally. However, this blindness can be prevented if DR is detected early. Diabetes mellitus slowly affects the retina by damaging retinal blood vessels and leading to microaneurysms. The retinal images give detailed information about the health status of the visual system. Analysis of retinal image is important for an understanding of the stages of Diabetic retinopathy. Microaneurysms observed that appear in retina images, usually, the initial visible sign of DR, if detected early and properly treated can prevent DR complications, including blindness. In this research work, an advanced image modal enhancement comprises of a Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE), through morphological image, processing technique with final extraction algorithm is proposed. CLAHE is responsible for the detection, and removal of the retinal optical disk. While the microaneurysm initial indicators are detected by using morphological image processing techniques. The extensive evaluation of the proposed advanced model conducted for microaneurysm detection depicts all stages of DR with an increase in the number of data set related to noise in the image. The microaneurysms noise is associated with stage of retina diseases as well as its early possible diagnosis. Evaluation is also conducted against the proposed model to measure its performance in terms of accuracy, sensitivity as well as specificity in real-time. The results show the test image attained 99.7% accuracy for a real-time database that is better compared with anty colony-based method. A sensitivity of 81% with a specificity of 90% was achieved for the detection of microaneurysms for the e-optha database. The detection of several microaneurysms correlates with stages of DR that prove an analysis of detecting its different stages. As well as it reaches our goal of early detection of DR with high performance in accuracy.
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
Review of methods for diabetic retinopathy detection and severity classificationeSAT Journals
Abstract Diabetic Retinopathy is a serious vascular disorder that might lead to complete blindness. Therefore, the early detection and the treatment are necessary to prevent major vision loss. Though the Manual screening methods are available, they are time consuming and inefficient on a large image database of patients. Moreover, it demands skilled professionals for the diagnosis. Automatic Diabetic Retinopathy diagnosis systems can replace manual methods as they can significantly reduce the manual labor involved in the screening process. Screening conducted over a larger population can become efficient if the system can separate normal and abnormal cases, instead of the manual examination of all images. Therefore, Automatic Retinopathy detection systems have attracted large popularity in the recent times. Automatic retinopathy detection systems employ image processing and computer vision techniques to detect different anomalies associated with retinopathy. This paper reviews various methods of diabetic retinopathy detection and classification into different stages based on severity levels and also, various image databases used for the research purpose are discussed. Keywords— Automatic Diabetic Retinopathy detection, computer vision, Diabetic Retinopathy, image databases, image processing, manual screening
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.
Multiagent Based Methodologies have become an
important subject of research in advance Software Engineering.
Several methodologies have been proposed as, a theoretical
approach, to facilitate and support the development of complex
distributed systems. An important question when facing the
construction of Agent Applications is deciding which
methodology to follow. Trying to answer this question, a
framework with several criteria is applied in this paper for the
comparative analysis of existing multiagent system
methodologies. The results of the comparative over two of them,
conclude that those methodologies have not reached a sufficient
maturity level to be used by the software industry. The
framework has also proved its utility for the evaluation of any
kind of Multiagent Based Software Engineering Methodology
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.
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
Early Detection of High Blood Pressure and Diabetic Retinopathy on Retinal Fu...IJAAS Team
In this paper we present a lifting wavelet based CBRIR image retrieval system that uses color and texture as visual features to describe the content of a retinal fundus images. Our contribution is of three directions. First, we use lifting wavelets 9/7 for lossy and SPL5/3 for lossless to extract texture features from arbitrary shaped retinal fundus regions separated from an image to increase the system effectiveness. This process is performed offline before query processing, therefore to answer a query our system does not need to search the entire database images; instead just a number of similar class type patient images are required to be searched for image similarity. Third, to further increase the retrieval accuracy of our system, we combine the region based features extracted from image regions, with global features extracted from the whole image, which are texture using lifting wavelet and HSV color histograms. Our proposed system has the advantage of increasing the retrieval accuracy and decreasing the retrieval time. The experimental evaluation of the system is based on a db1 online retinal fundus color image database. From the experimental results, it is evident that our system performs significantly better accuracy as compared with traditional wavelet based systems. In our simulation analysis, we provide a comparison between retrieval results based on features extracted from the whole image using lossless 5/3 lifting wavelet and features extracted using lossless 9/7 lifting wavelet and using traditional wavelet. The results demonstrate that each type of feature is effective for a particular type of disease of retinal fundus images according to its semantic contents, and using lossless 5/3 lifting wavelet of them gives better retrieval results for almost all semantic classes and outperform 4-10% more accuracy than traditional wavelet.
A Novel Advanced Approach Using Morphological Image Processing Technique for ...CSCJournals
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a common complication of diabetes mellitus and can lead to irreversible blindness. To date, DR is the leading cause of blindness and visual impairment among working adults globally. However, this blindness can be prevented if DR is detected early. Diabetes mellitus slowly affects the retina by damaging retinal blood vessels and leading to microaneurysms. The retinal images give detailed information about the health status of the visual system. Analysis of retinal image is important for an understanding of the stages of Diabetic retinopathy. Microaneurysms observed that appear in retina images, usually, the initial visible sign of DR, if detected early and properly treated can prevent DR complications, including blindness. In this research work, an advanced image modal enhancement comprises of a Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE), through morphological image, processing technique with final extraction algorithm is proposed. CLAHE is responsible for the detection, and removal of the retinal optical disk. While the microaneurysm initial indicators are detected by using morphological image processing techniques. The extensive evaluation of the proposed advanced model conducted for microaneurysm detection depicts all stages of DR with an increase in the number of data set related to noise in the image. The microaneurysms noise is associated with stage of retina diseases as well as its early possible diagnosis. Evaluation is also conducted against the proposed model to measure its performance in terms of accuracy, sensitivity as well as specificity in real-time. The results show the test image attained 99.7% accuracy for a real-time database that is better compared with anty colony-based method. A sensitivity of 81% with a specificity of 90% was achieved for the detection of microaneurysms for the e-optha database. The detection of several microaneurysms correlates with stages of DR that prove an analysis of detecting its different stages. As well as it reaches our goal of early detection of DR with high performance in accuracy.
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
Review of methods for diabetic retinopathy detection and severity classificationeSAT Journals
Abstract Diabetic Retinopathy is a serious vascular disorder that might lead to complete blindness. Therefore, the early detection and the treatment are necessary to prevent major vision loss. Though the Manual screening methods are available, they are time consuming and inefficient on a large image database of patients. Moreover, it demands skilled professionals for the diagnosis. Automatic Diabetic Retinopathy diagnosis systems can replace manual methods as they can significantly reduce the manual labor involved in the screening process. Screening conducted over a larger population can become efficient if the system can separate normal and abnormal cases, instead of the manual examination of all images. Therefore, Automatic Retinopathy detection systems have attracted large popularity in the recent times. Automatic retinopathy detection systems employ image processing and computer vision techniques to detect different anomalies associated with retinopathy. This paper reviews various methods of diabetic retinopathy detection and classification into different stages based on severity levels and also, various image databases used for the research purpose are discussed. Keywords— Automatic Diabetic Retinopathy detection, computer vision, Diabetic Retinopathy, image databases, image processing, manual screening
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.
Multiagent Based Methodologies have become an
important subject of research in advance Software Engineering.
Several methodologies have been proposed as, a theoretical
approach, to facilitate and support the development of complex
distributed systems. An important question when facing the
construction of Agent Applications is deciding which
methodology to follow. Trying to answer this question, a
framework with several criteria is applied in this paper for the
comparative analysis of existing multiagent system
methodologies. The results of the comparative over two of them,
conclude that those methodologies have not reached a sufficient
maturity level to be used by the software industry. The
framework has also proved its utility for the evaluation of any
kind of Multiagent Based Software Engineering Methodology
This paper aims to identify Key determinants for
successful Project Implementation in the state of West Bengal
with special focus in the Durgapur Industrial area. The research
is motivated by the fact that of late there has been limited success
in Project Implementation in West Bengal which had earlier been
very successful in large scale project Implementation. Project
related Professionals of the region were deliberated and
interviewed. An objective realization instrument developed using
47 factors identified in the research as possible drivers in Project
implementation based on Likert’s seven point scale of ranking.
Weighted scores of respondents who have been involved in
project implementation in the area to the factors were analysed
using Factor Analysis, while the effects of the quantified weight of
the critical factors were analysed using regression tool. Result of
the analysis clearly identifies the Key determinant among all
factors which are essential for successful Project Implementation.
The 47 factors are further grouped into few segments like
Human, Resource, and Infrastructure etc. So through this
research segment priority is also determined for the area and
project manager based on priority can devote their time and
energy to ensure that the Project is successfully completed. The
customisation of Project planning and Project design has been
the key determinant for successful project implementation
New Schiff base ligand (E)-6-(2-(4-
(dimethylamino)benzylideneamino)-2-phenylacetamido)-3,3-
dimethyl-7-oxo-4-thia-1-azabicyclo[3.2.0]heptane-2-carboxylic
acid = (HL) Figure(1) was prepared via condensation of
Ampicillin and 4(dimethylamino)benzaldehyde in methanol
.Polydentate mixed ligand complexes were obtained from 1:1:2
molar ratio reactions with metal ions and HL, 2NA on reaction
with MCl2 .nH2O salt yields complexes corresponding to the
formulas [M(L)(NA)2Cl] ,where M =
Fe(II),Co(II),Ni(II),Cu(II),and Zn(II) and NA=nicotinamide.
The 1H-NMR, FT-IR, UV-Vis and elemental analysis
were used for the characterization of the ligand. The complexes
were structurally studied through AAS, FT-IR, UV-Vis,
chloride contents, conductance, and magnetic susceptibility
measurements. All complexes are non-electrolytes in DMSO
solution. Octahedral geometries have been suggested for each
of the complexes. The Schiff base ligands function as
tridentates and the deprotonated enolic form is preferred for
coordination. In order to evaluate the effect of the bactericidal
activity, these synthesized complexes, in comparison to the un
complexed Schiff base has been screened against bacterial
species, Staphy
Discovering Abnormal Patches and Transformations of Diabetics Retinopathy in ...cscpconf
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the retinal diseases due to long-term effect of diabetes.
Early detection for diabetic retinopathy is crucial since timely treatment can prevent
progressive loss of vision. The most common diagnosis technique of diabetic retinopathy is to
screen abnormalities through retinal fundus images by clinicians. However, limited number of
well-trained clinicians increase the possibilities of misdiagnosing. In this work, we propose a
big-data-driven automatic computer-aided diagnosing (CAD) system for diabetic retinopathy
severity regression based on transfer learning, which starts from a deep convolutional neural
network pre-trained on generic images, and adapts it to large-scale DR datasets. From images
in the training set, we also automatically segment the abnormal patches with an occlusion test,
and model the transformations and deterioration process of DR. Our results can be widely used
for fast diagnosis of DR, medical education and public-level healthcare propagation.
DISCOVERING ABNORMAL PATCHES AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF DIABETICS RETINOPATHY IN ...csandit
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the retinal diseases due to long-term effect of diabetes.Early detection for diabetic retinopathy is crucial since timely treatment can prevent
progressive loss of vision. The most common diagnosis technique of diabetic retinopathy is to screen abnormalities through retinal fundus images by clinicians. However, limited number of well-trained clinicians increase the possibilities of misdiagnosing. In this work, we propose a big-data-driven automatic computer-aided diagnosing (CAD) system for diabetic retinopathy severity regression based on transfer learning, which starts from a deep convolutional neural
network pre-trained on generic images, and adapts it to large-scale DR datasets. From images in the training set, we also automatically segment the abnormal patches with an occlusion test,and model the transformations and deterioration process of DR. Our results can be widely used for fast diagnosis of DR, medical education and public-level healthcare propagation.
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%
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.
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
Rapid detection of diabetic retinopathy in retinal images: a new approach usi...IJECEIAES
The challenge of early detection of diabetic retinopathy (DR), a leading cause of vision loss in working-age individuals in developed nations, was addressed in this study. Current manual analysis of digital color fundus photographs by clinicians, although thorough, suffers from slow result turnaround, delaying necessary treatment. To expedite detection and improve treatment timeliness, a novel automated detection system for DR was developed. This system utilized convolutional neural networks. Visual geometry group 16-layer network (VGG16), a pre-trained deep learning model, for feature extraction from retinal images and the synthetic minority over-sampling technique (SMOTE) to handle class imbalance in the dataset. The system was designed to classify images into five categories: normal, mild DR, moderate DR, severe DR, and proliferative DR (PDR). Assessment of the system using the Kaggle diabetic retinopathy dataset resulted in a promising 93.94% accuracy during the training phase and 88.19% during validation. These results highlight the system's potential to enhance DR diagnosis speed and efficiency, leading to improved patient outcomes. The study concluded that automation and artificial intelligence (AI) could play a significant role in timely and efficient disease detection and management.
Automatic detection of microaneurysms and hemorrhages in color eye fundus imagesijcsit
This paper presents an approach for automatic detection of microaneurysms and hemorrhages in fundus
images. These lesions are considered the earliest signs of diabetic retinopathy. The diabetic retinopathy is
a disease caused by diabetes and is considered as the major cause of blindness in working age population.
The proposed method is based on mathematical morphology and consists in removing components of
retinal anatomy to reach the lesions. This method consists of five stages: a) pre-processing; b)
enhancement of low intensity structures; c) detection of blood vessels; d) elimination of blood vessels; e)
elimination of the fovea. The accuracy of the method was tested on a public database of fundus images,
where it achieved satisfactory results, comparable to other methods from the literature, reporting 87.69%
and 92.44% of mean sensitivity and specificity, respectively.
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.
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
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obtained accuracy may be sufficient to reduce the workload of an
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Background Hospital contributes significantly tangible and intangible resources on a concurred plan by the scheduling of surgery on the OT list. Postponement decreases efficiency by declining throughput leads to wastage of resources hence burden to the nation. Patients and their family face economic and emotional implication due to the postponement. Postponement rate being a quality indicator controls check mechanism could be developed from the results. Postponement of elective scheduled operations results in inefficient use of the operating room (OR) time on the day of surgery. Inconvenience to patients and families are also caused by postponements. Moreover, the day of surgery (DOS) postponement creates logistic and financial burden associated with extended hospital stay and repetitions of pre-operative preparations to an extent of repetition of investigations in some cases causing escalated costs, wastage of time and reduced income. Methodology A cross-sectional study was done in the operation theaters of a tertiary care hospital in which total ten operation theaters of General Surgery Data of scheduled, performed and postponed surgeries was collected from all the operation theater with effect from March 1st to September 30th, 2018. A questionnaire was developed to find out the reasons for the postponement for all hospital’s stakeholders (surgeons, Anesthetist, Nursing Officer) and they were further evaluated time series analysis of scheduling of Operation Theater for moving average technique. Results Total 958 surgeries were scheduled and 772 surgeries performed were and 186 surgeries were postponed with a postponement rate of 19.42% in the cardiac surgery department during the study period. Month-wise postponement Rate exponential smoothing of time series data shows the dynamic of operating suits. To test throughput Postponement rate was plotted the postponed surgeries and on regression analysis is in a perfect linear relationship.
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In the present paper the experimental study of
Nanotechnology involves high cost for Lab set-up and the
experimentation processes were also slow. Attempt has also
been made to discuss the contributions towards the societal
change in the present convergence of Nano-systems and
information technologies. one cannot rely on experimental
nanotechnology alone. As such, the Computer- simulations and
modeling are one of the foundations of computational
nanotechnology. The computer modeling and simulations
were also referred as computational experimentations. The
accuracy of such Computational nano-technology based
experiment generally depends on the accuracy of the following
things: Intermolecular interaction, Numerical models and
Simulation schemes used. The essence of nanotechnology is
therefore size and control because of the diversity of
applications the plural term nanotechnology is preferred by
some nevertheless they all share the common feature of control
at the nanometer scale the latter focusing on the observation
and study of phenomena at the nanometer scale. In this paper,
a brief study of Computer-Simulation techniques as well as
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Multilevel inverters play a crucial part in the
areas of high and medium voltage applications. Among the three
main multilevel inverters used, the capacitor clamped multilevel
inverter(CCMLI) has advantage with respect to voltage
redundancies. This work proposes a switching pattern to improve
the performance of chosen H-bridge type CCMLI over
conventional CCMLI. The PWM technique used in this work is
Phase Opposition Disposition PWM(PODPWM). The
performance of proposed H-bridge type CCMLI is verified
through MATLAB-Simulink based simulation. It has been
observed that the THD is low in chosen CCMLI compared to
conventional CCMLI.
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according to Barker code with 13 chips in presence of additive
white Gaussian noise (AWGN) by using a digital matched filter
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disasters in Nigeria. The impact of flooding on human activities
cannot be overemphasized. It can threaten human lives, their
property, environment and the economy. Different techniques
exist to manage and analyze the impact of flooding. Some of these
techniques have not been effective in management of flood
disaster. Remote sensing technique presents itself as an effective
and efficient means of managing flood disaster. In this study,
SPOT-10 image was used to perform land cover/ land use
classification of the study area. Advanced Space borne Thermal
Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) image of 2010 was
used to generate the Digital Elevation Model (DEM). The image
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Neighborhood/Focal Statistics Tool in ArcMap. The contour map
was produced using the Spatial Analyst/ Surface/ Contour Tools.
The DEM generated from the focal statistics was reclassified into
different risk levels based on variation of elevation values. The
depression in the DEM was filled and used to create the flow
direction map. The flow accumulation map was produced using
the flow direction data as input image. The stream network and
watershed were equally generated and the stream vectorized. The
reclassified DEM, stream network and vectorized land cover
classes were integrated and used to analyze the impact of flood on
the classes. The result shows that 27.86% of the area studied will
be affected at very high risk flood level, 35.63% at high risk,
17.90% at moderate risk, 10.72% at low risk, and 7.89% at no
risk flood level. Built up area class will be mostly affected at very
high risk flood level while farmland will be affected at high risk
flood level. Oshoro, Imhekpeme, and Weppa communities will be
affected at very high risk flood inundation while Ivighe, Uneme,
Igoide and Iviari communities will be at risk at high risk flood
inundation level. It is recommended among others that buildings
that fall within the “Very High Risk” area should be identified
and occupants possibly relocated to other areas such as the “No
Risk” area.
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we have lived by the water and vast tracts of waterless land have
been abandoned as it is too difficult to inhabit. At any given
moment, the earth’s atmosphere contains 4,000 cubic miles of
water, which is just 0.000012% of the 344 million cubic miles of
water on earth. Nature maintains this ratio via evaporation and
condensation, irrespective of the activities of man.
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scarcity. Obtaining water from the atmosphere is nothing new -
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of evaporation and condensation in the form of rain or snow has
been the sole source and means of regenerating wholesome water
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require a lot of utilities. It also helps in further reducing the
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operation. The methods for analysis and testing batteries are
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project has been divided under Technical, Financial, Sociopolitical
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mechanization of the construction process to cater to the growing
demands. Non- availability of supporting infrastructure, political
issues like instability of the government leading to regulatory
issues, social issues, marketing forms an important part in these
projects as this is a onetime investment and the purchase cycle is
long , long development period makes the same project be at
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mining are major concern due to its hazardous effect to
environment and making serious imbalance to the ecosystem.
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environment, using byproducts like copper slag as partial
replacement of fine aggregate. Different researchers have also
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determining the strength of concrete. A comprehensive review of
studies has been presented in this paper for scope of replacement
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being protected against any danger or loss. Thus safety plays a
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protection of these resources from unauthorized users that
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Security of online bank transactions here has been
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deviated nasal septum. This surgery may be associated with
numerous complications. To minimize these complications,
otolaryngologists frequently pack both nasal cavities with
different types of nasal packing. Despite all its advantages,
nasal packing is also associated with some disadvantages. To
avoid these issues, many surgeons use suturing techniques to
obviate the need for packing after surgery.
Objective: To determine the efficacy and safety of trans-septal
suture technique in preventing complications and decreasing
morbidity after septoplasty in comparison with nasal packing.
Patients and methods: Prospective comparative study. This
study was conducted in the department of Otolaryngology -
Head and Neck Surgery, Rizgary Teaching Hospital - Erbil,
from the 6th of May 2014 to the 30th of November 2014.
A total of 60 patients aged 18-45 years, undergoing septoplasty,
were included in the study. Before surgery, patients were
randomly divided into two equal groups. Group (A) with transseptal
suture technique was compared with group (B) in which
nasal packing with Merocel was done. Postoperative morbidity
in terms of pain, bleeding, postnasal drip, sleep disturbance,
dysphagia, headache and epiphora along with postoperative
complications including septal hematoma, septal perforation,
crustation and synechiae formation were assessed over a follow
up period of four weeks.
Results: Out of 60 patients, 37 patients were males (61.7%)
and 23 patients were females (38.3%). Patients with nasal
packing had significantly more postoperative pain (P<0.05)><0.05). There was no significant difference between
the two groups with respect to nasal bleeding, septal
hematoma, septal perforation, crustation and synechiae
formation.
Conclusion: Septoplasty can be safely performed using transseptal
suturing technique without nasal packing.
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The cable-hoisting method and rail cable-lifting
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SYSTEM BASED ON THE NEURAL NETWORK FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF DIABETIC RETINOPATHY
1. International Journal of Technical Research and Applications e-ISSN: 2320-8163,
www.ijtra.com Volume 2, Issue 4 (July-Aug 2014), PP. 76-80
76 | P a g e
SYSTEM BASED ON THE NEURAL NETWORK
FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF DIABETIC
RETINOPATHY
Dipika gadriye1, Prof.Gopichand Khandale2
Department of Electronics Engineering
Wainganga College of Engineering & Management
Nagpur, India.
Abstract— 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.
Key words— Diabetic retinopathy, feature extraction, fundus
photograps, microaneurysms, Vessel Segmentation.
I.INTRODUCTION
Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is the most common diabetic
eye disease and is the leading cause of blindness in a persons
with diabetes within the age group 20 to 74 years in developed
countries [1]. It is caused by the changes in the blood vessel of
retina. It is provoked by diabetes-mellitus complications and,
although diabetes affection does not necessarily involve vision
impairment. About 2% of the patients affected by this disorder
are blind,10% undergo vision degradation after 15 years of
diabetes [2], [3] as a consequence of DR complications The
estimated prevalence of diabetes for all age groups worldwide
was 2.8% in 2000 and 4.4% in 2030, meaning that the total
number of diabetes patients is forecasted to rise from 171
million in 2000 to 366 million in 2030 [4]. DR also becomes a
great economic problem for Administrations since, only in U.S.
cost of ophthalmic chronic complications caused by diabetes
exceeded 1 billion dollars in 2007 [5]. Although the diabetic
retinopathy is not curable and also DR patients perceive no
symptoms until visual loss develops, usually in the later disease
stages, when the treatment is less effective. But if the treatment
is received in time patients can be prevented to become
affected from this condition or atleast the progression of DR
can be slowed down. Thus, mass screening of the patients
suffering from the diabeties is highly desired, but manual
grading is slow and resource demanding. Therefore more effort
are being taken to design authentic computer - aided screening
system based on color fundus images. The promising result
reported by Antal et al.[6] indicate that the automatic DR
screening systems are getting closer to be used in clinical
practices. These types of automated systems have the potential
to reduce the workload for screening ophthalmologists while
maintaining a high sensitivity (i.e., above 90%) for the
detection of patients with DR. Furthermore, itwould also result
in economic benefits for public Health Systems, since cost-
effective treatments associated to early illness detection lead to
remarkable cost savings [7].
In this paper, a new methodology for blood vessel detection
presented by Marin et al. [9] is optimized for the MA detection.
It is based on pixel classification using a 2-D feature vector
extracted from preprocessed retinal images and given as input
to a neural network. Classification results (real values between
0 and 1) are thresholded to classify each pixel into two classes:
vessel and nonvessel. Finally, a postprocessing fills pixel gaps
in detected blood vessels and removes falsely-detected isolated
vessel pixels.
Despite its simplicity, the high accuracy achieved by this
method in blood vessel detection is comparable to that reported
by the most accurate methods in literature. Moreover, it offers a
better behavior against images of different conditions. This fact
is especially relevant if we keep in mind that the main aim of
implementing a vessel segmentation algorithm is its integration
in systems for automated detection of eye diseases. This kind of
systems should require no user interaction and, therefore, be
field of retinal imaging, this involves a huge challenge, since
large variability is observed in the image acquisition process
and a natural variation is reported in the appearance of the
retina. Applications are being developed in which a computer
interprets an image to aid a physician in detecting possibly
subtle abnormalities. A spell-checker indicates words or
grammar it suspects to be incorrect. This may or may not be the
case and the human operator, the writer in this case, either
accepts or rejects the machine’s suggestions. A similar process
can be used for medical image analysis. The computer indicates
places in the image that require extra attention from the
physician because they could be abnormal. These technologies
are called Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD). Other emerging
CAD applications are the automatic detection of polyps in the
large intestine and automatic lung nodule detection. This thesis
describes components of an automatic system which can aid in
the detection of diabetic retinopathy.This is an eye disease and
a common complication of diabetes that can cause blindness
and vision loss if left undiagnosed at an early stage. As the
number of people afflicted with diabetes increases worldwide,
the need for automated detection methods of diabetic
retinopathy will increase as well. To automatically detect
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diabetic retinopathy, a computer should interpret and analyze
digital images of the retina.
II.PROPOSED SYSTEM
The proposed system gives an automated method for
blood vessel enhancement and segmentation. The input retinal
image normally contains too many background pixels which
are not required for further processing. A preprocessing is
applied to remove the background and noise from the image. It
takes colored retinal image as a input. Studies on retinal images
have shownthat it is the green channel which gives the best
contrast between the surface area and blood vessels.
Furthermore in inverted green channel, blood vessels appear
more lighter than background that is why we have used
inverted green channel for blood vessel enhancement and
segmentation. For detection of neovascularization, it is
important to enhance the vascular pattern especially the thin
and less visible vessels. The proposed algorithm uses two
dimensional Gabor wavelet for vessel enhancement [10].
Fig.1. Flow diagram for proposed system
After vessel enhancement, multilayered thresholding and
adaptive thresholding techniques are applied to create a binary
mask for blood vessel segmentation. Then a sliding window is
applied to find new abnormal blood vessel. Figure shows
thecomplete flow diagram for proposed technique.
III.RETINAL IMAGES DATABASES
Fundus photography is the creation of a photograph of
the interior surface of the eye, including the retina, optic disc,
macula, and posterior pole. The fundus image of the retina is
basically acquired with the digital fundus camera, which is a
specialized camera that images the retina via the pupil of the
eye. The fundus camera has the illumination system. Modern
systems image at high-resolution and in color with Nikon or
Canon digital SLR camera backends. The field of view (FOV)
of the retina that is imaged can usually be adjusted from 25◦ to
60◦ (as determined from the pupil) in two or three small steps.
The smaller FOV has better detail but this is at the expense of a
reduced view of the retina. There are various publicly databases
which are available online for the study or research purpose
such as Messidor database, STARE, DRIVE, DIARETDB1
Database and private database from hospital. The databases
available are for the study and research purpose. In this
databases various images along with annotation file is provided
in which pathological result for each image such as retinopathy
grade and features which are present such as micro aneurysm,
exudates, hemorrhages, neovascularization is mentioned.
IV.PREPROCESSING METHODS
The first step in preprocessing is to extract the green
channel of the image. Since the input images are monochrome
and obtained by extracting the green band from original RGB
retinal images. The green channel provides the best vessel-
background contrast of the RGB-representation, while the red
channel is the brightest color channel and has low contrast, and
the blue one offers poor dynamic range. Thus, blood containing
elements in the retinal layer (such as vessels and
microaneurysms) are best represented and reach higher contrast
in the green channel [13].
Fig.2.Framework of the proposed scheme
A. Fundus Mask Detection
The fundus can be easily separated from the background by
converting the original fundus image from the RGB to HSI
colour system where a separate channel is used to represent the
intensity values of the image. The intensity channel image is
thresholded by a low threshold value as the background pixels
are typically significantly darker than the fundus pixels. A
median filter of size 5 × 5 is used to remove any noise from the
created fundus mask and the edge pixels are removed by
morphological opening with a square structuring element of
size 5 × 5.
Fig.3.Automatic fundus mask generation. (a) Input image
(b) Automatically generated fundus mask.
After that the mask is obtained by extracting the pixels
having the values greater than 0 over the range of 0 – 255 and
then FOV is obtained by multiplying the mask image with
greatest pixel value i.e. 255. Figure 4.2 shows the example of
the fundus mask.Color fundus images often show important
lighting variations, poor contrast and noise. In order to reduce
these imperfections and generate images more suitable for
extracting the pixel features demanded in the classification
step, a preprocessing comprising the following steps is applied:
1) vessel central light reflex removal, 2) background
homogenization, and 3) vessel enhancement.
B. Vessel Central Light Reflex Removal
Since retinal blood vessels have lower reflectance when
compared to other retinal surfaces, they appear darker than the
background. Although the typical vessel cross-sectional gray-
level profile can be approximated by a Gaussian shaped curve
(inner vessel pixels are darker than the outermost ones), some
blood vessels include a light streak (known as a light reflex)
which runs down the central length of the blood vessel.
To remove this brighter strip, the green plane of the image
is filtered by applying a morphological opening using a three-
pixel diameter disc, defined in a square grid by using eight-
connexity, as structuring element. Disc diameter was fixed to
the possible minimum value to reduce the risk of merging close
vessels. Iγ denotes the resultant image for future references.
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C. Background Homogenization
A Fundus images often contain background intensity
variation due to nonuniform illumination.
Consequently, background pixels may have different
intensity for the same image and, although their gray-levels are
usually higher than those of vessel pixels (in relation to green
channel images), the intensity values of some background
pixels is comparable to that of brighter vessel pixels. Since the
feature vector used to represent a pixel in the classification
stage is formed by gray-scale values, this effect may worsen the
performance of the vessel segmentation methodology. With the
purpose of removing these background lightening variations, a
shade-corrected image is accomplished from a background
estimate. This image is the result of a filtering operation with a
large arithmetic mean kernel, as described. Firstly, a 3 × 3
mean filter is applied to smooth occasional salt-and-pepper
noise. Further noise smoothing is performed by convolving the
resultant image with a Gaussian kernel of dimensions m × m =
9 × 9, mean µ = 0 and variance σ = 1.82, Gmµ,σ2 = G90,1.82.
Secondly, a background image IB, is produced by applying a
69 × 69 mean filter . When this filter is applied to the pixels in
the FOV near the border, the results are strongly biased by the
external dark region. To overcome this problem, out-of-the
FOV gray-levels are replaced by average gray-levels in the
remaining pixels in the square. Then, the difference D between
Iγ and IB is calculated for every pixel
D(x,y)=Iγ(x,y)-IB(x,y) (1)
To this respect, literature reports shade-correction methods
based on the subtraction of the background image from the
original image [12] or the division of the latter by the former
[13]. Both procedures rendered similar results upon testing.
Moreover, none of them showed to contribute any appreciable
advantage relative to the other. The subtractive approach in (1)
was used in the present work.
Finally, a shade-corrected image ISC is obtained by
transforming linearly RD values into integers covering the
whole range of possible gray-levels ( [0 – 255] , referred to 8-
bit images).The proposed shade-correction algorithm is
observed to reduce background intensity variations and
enhance contrast in relation to the original green channel
image.
Besides the background intensity variations in images,
intensities can reveal significant variations between images due
to different illumination conditions in the acquisition process.
In order to reduce this influence, a homogenized image IH [Fig.
3(a)] is produced as follows: the histogram of ISC is displaced
toward the middle of the gray-scale by modifying pixel
intensities according to the following gray-level global
transformation function:
gout = 0 ; for g < 0
=255 ; for g > 255 (2)
= g ; otherwise
Where,
g=gin+128–gin-max (3)
gin= gray level variable of shade corrected image (ISC)
out = gray level variable of homogeneous image (IH)
gin-max= gray level containing highest no. of pixel in ISC.
By means of this operation, pixels with gray-level gin-max ,
which are observed to correspond to the background of the
retina, are set to 128 for 8-bit images.
Thus, background pixels in images with different
illumination conditions will standardize their intensity around
this value.
D. Vessel Enhancement
The final preprocessing step consists on generating a new
vessel-enhanced image (IVE), which proves more suitable for
further extraction of gray level based features. Vessel
enhancement is performed by estimating the complementary
image of the homogenized image IH , IHC, and subsequently
applying the morphological Top-Hat transformation
IVE=IHCγ(IHC) (4)
Where γ is a morphological opening operation using a disc
of eight pixels in radius. Thus, while bright retinal structures
are removed (i.e., optic disc, possible presence of exudates or
reflection artifacts), the darker structures remaining after the
opening operation become enhanced (i.e., blood vessels, fovea,
possible presence of microaneurysms or hemorrhages).
Samples of vessel enhancement operation results are for two
fundus images with variable illumination conditions.
Fig .4.(a) Homogenized Image IH (b) Vessel Enhanced
Image IVE
V.DETECTION OF NEOVASCULARIZATION
The study of the blood vessel is very important for the
detection of the neovascularization. Neovascularization is the
appearance of new blood vessels in the fundus area and inside
the optical disk which is the sign of proliferative diabetic
retinopathy (PDR). So the segmentation of blood vessel
becomes important step to detect neovascularization. have
proposed the system which gives an automated method for the
blood vessel enhancement and segmentation. A preprocessing
algorithm given in [11] is applied to remove the background
and noise from the image. It takes colored retinal image as a
input. This algorithm uses 2D Gabor wavelet for vessel
enhancement [15]. For vessel enhancement normally matched
filters (MFs) are used but the drawback is that MFs not only
enhance blood vessels edges they also enhance bright lesions.
So 2D Gabor wavelet is best option due to its directional
selectiveness capability of detecting oriented features and fine
tuning to specific frequencies. By performing subsequent
iteration of decreasing threshold the segmented image is
skeletonized to eliminate falls edges . In order to find abnormal
vessels, a window of size 15 x 15 is slided over segmented
blood vessels. For each position energy and density of blood
vessels are computed and if they are more than the normal
behavior of blood vessels then that segment contains abnormal
blood vessel which is a sign of PDR.
VI.FEATURE EXTRATION
To recognize or classify an object in an image, one must
first extract some features out of the image, and then use these
features inside a pattern classifier to obtain the final class.
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Feature extraction (or detection) aims to locate significant
feature regions on images depending on their intrinsic
characteristics and applications. These regions can be defined
in global or local neighborhood and distinguished by shapes,
textures, sizes, intensities, statistical properties, and so on.
Local feature extraction methods are divided into intensity
based and structure based. Intensity-based methods analyze
local intensity patterns to find regions that satisfy desired
uniqueness or stability criteria. Structure-based methods detect
image structures such as edges, lines, corners, circles, ellipses,
and so on. Feature extraction tends to identify the characteristic
features that can form a good representation of the object, so as
to discriminate across the object category with tolerance of
variations.Gray level based Feature are the features based on
the differences between the gray-level in the candidate pixel
and a statistical value representative of its surroundings. Since
blood vessels are always darker than their surroundings,
features based on describing gray-level variation in the
surroundings of candidate pixels seem a good choice. A set of
gray-level-based descriptors taking this information into
account were derived from considering only a small pixel
region homogenized images IH centered on the described
pixel (x,y). swx,y stands for the set of coordinates in a w × w
sized square window centered on point (x,y) . Then, these
descriptors can be expressed as
F1(x,y)=IVE(x,y) (5)
F2(x,y)=meanIVEx,y) (6)
S3×3x,y
VII.CLASSIFICATION
In the feature extraction stage, each pixel from a fundus
imageis characterized by a vector in a 2-D feature space such
as:
F(x,y) = (f1(x,y), f2(x,y)) (7)
After that classification procedure assigns class C1 as
Vessel and C2 as Nonvessel to every candidate pixel. Since
training dataset available for testing algorithm was not
linearally separable because of the presence of vasculature
structures. Some of nonlinear classifier can be found in the
existing literature on Bayesian classifier, Neural network,
Support Vector Machine , and kNN method . In the proposed
method feed forward back propagation neural network is
selected. There are two stages of neural network, one is design
stage and other is application stage. In design stage
configuration and training of neural network is performed. In
application stage trained neural network is used to classify
every pixel as Vessel or Nonvessel to obtain binary vessel
image.
A. Neural Network Design:
A multilayer feedforward network, consisting of an input
layer, three hidden layers and an output layer, is adopted in this
paper. The input layer is composed by a number of neuron
Fig.4.Structure of the Multilayer Perceptron Neural
Network
equal to the dimension of the feature vector (two neurons).
Regarding the hidden layers, several topologies with different
numbers of neurons were tested. A number of two hidden
layers, each containing 6 and 3 neurons, provided optimal NN
configuration. The output layer contains a single neuron and is
attached, as the remainder units, to a nonlinear logistic sigmoid
activation function, so its output ranges between 0 and 1. This
choice was grounded on the fact of interpreting NN output as
posterior probabilities.The training set, ST , is composed of a
set of N candidates for which the feature vector [F- (7)], and
the classification result (C1 or C2 : vessel or nonvessel) are
known
ST={F(n), Ck(n) n=1,2…,N; Kє{1,2}} (8)
The samples forming were collected from manually labeled
non vessel and vessel pixels in the DRIVE training images.
Specifically, around 48,000 pixel samples, fairly divided into
vessel and non-vessel pixels, were used. Unlike other author
[8], who selected their training set by random pixel-sample
extraction from available manual segmentations of DRIVE and
STARE images, we produced our own training set by
hand.1 As discussed in literature, gold-standard images may
contain errors due to the considerable difficulty involved by the
creation of these handmade images.
B. Neural Network Application
At this stage, the trained NN is applied to an “unseen”
fundus image to generate a binary image in which blood
vessels are identified from retinal background: pixels’
mathematical descriptions are individually passed through the
NN. In our case, the NN input units receive the set of features.
Since a logistic sigmoidal activation unction wfas selected
for the single neuron of the output layer, the NN decision
determines a classification value between 0 and 1. Thus, a
Fig.5.Output of Vessel Segmentation Method
vessel probability map indicating the probability for the
pixel to be part of a vessel is produced. Illustratively, the
resultant probability map corresponding to a DRIVE database
fundus image [Fig.5 ] is shown as an image in Fig.5. The bright
pixels in this image indicate higher probability of being vessel
pixel. In order to obtain a vessel binary segmentation, a
thresholding scheme on the probability map is used to decide
whether a particular pixel is part of a vessel or not. Therefore,
the classification procedure assigns one of the classes C1
(vessel) or C2 (nonvessel) to each candidate pixel, depending
on if its associated probability is greater than a threshold Th .
Thus, a classification output image ICO , is obtained by
associating classes C1 and C2 to the gray level values 255 and
0, respectively. Mathematically
ICO = { 255 (= C1) , if p(C1| F(x,y)) ≥ Th (9)
0 (= C2) ,
otherwise
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where p(C1| F(x,y)) denotes the probability of a pixel (x,y)
described by feature vector F(x,y) to belong to class C1. The
optimum value of Th is selected as 80.
VIII.MICROANEURYSMS DETECTION
For microaneurysms detection we consider the output of
vessel segmentation process i.e. IVE and after that the intensity
of the image is adjusted such that intensity values in grayscale
image IVE to new values in intensity adjusted image, IAI such
that 1% of data is saturated at low and high intensities of IVE.
This increases the contrast of the output image IAI. In addition
to this it will also enhance microaneurysms structure which
were difficult to identify in the vessel enhance image, IVE as
shown in fig 6.
Fig.6. Final Vessel Image
Fig.7. Intensity Adjusted Image
Fig.8. Morphologically opened to remove Microaneurysms
Fig.9..Difference image IMD
IX.CONCLUSION
The proposed algorithm is able to detect the microaneurysms
from the fundus image without the need of doing fundus
flourescene angiography and it is simple, flexible and robust.
Vessel segmentation has been done using two pixel feature,
still an appreciable accuracy is attained. The advantage of the
proposed method is less computation time, so that an
ophthalmologist can concentrate on more severe patients rather
than testing every patient. With such a screening system a
person with little training can able to do testing of patient so it
is not necessary to have expert ophthalmologist. Since this
system is able to detect microaneurysms at earliest stage there
will be remarkable cost saving in treatment.
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