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Erschienen in: International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries 1/2018

02.06.2017 | Original Article

Automatic detection of retinal hemorrhages by exploiting image processing techniques for screening retinal diseases in diabetic patients

verfasst von: Rafia Mumtaz, Muddasser Hussain, Saba Sarwar, Komal Khan, Sadaf Mumtaz, Mustafa Mumtaz

Erschienen in: International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries | Ausgabe 1/2018

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Abstract

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the main retinal abnormalities which is asymptomatic and is the main cause of vision loss in diabetic patients. The computer-aided diagnosis systems based on image processing not only facilitate the doctor but also decrease the diagnosis time. This work represents the automated detection of one of the red lesion, i.e., hemorrhages, which are one of the most distinctive signs of retinal diseases in diabetic patients. In the proposed method, the foremost step is to enhance the image quality by eliminating the background noise and nonuniform illumination. This is achieved by applying the methods such as image contrast enhancement and normalization. The subsequent step is to segment the blood vessels from hemorrhages (using scale-based method) as both of them have the same color. The last step is to delineate the hemorrhages by exploiting the gamma correction and global thresholding techniques. The proposed method has achieved specificity (SP) of 84%, sensitivity (SN) of 87%, and an accuracy of 89 % on the DIARETDB1 database.
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Metadaten
Titel
Automatic detection of retinal hemorrhages by exploiting image processing techniques for screening retinal diseases in diabetic patients
verfasst von
Rafia Mumtaz
Muddasser Hussain
Saba Sarwar
Komal Khan
Sadaf Mumtaz
Mustafa Mumtaz
Publikationsdatum
02.06.2017
Verlag
Springer India
Erschienen in
International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries / Ausgabe 1/2018
Print ISSN: 0973-3930
Elektronische ISSN: 1998-3832
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13410-017-0561-6

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