Segmentation of Retinal Blood Vessels Using Pulse Coupled Neural Network to Delineate Diabetic Retinopathy

2016 ◽  
pp. 268-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Jemima Jebaseeli ◽  
D. Sujitha Juliet ◽  
C. Anand Devadurai
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Diabetic Retinopathy ◽  
Blood Vessels ◽  
Pulse Coupled Neural Network ◽  
Retinal Blood Vessels

scholarly journals Deep Learning for Early Diabetic Retinopathy Detection

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anurag Vaidya ◽  
Joshua Stough
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Diabetic Retinopathy ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Early Diagnosis ◽  
Blood Vessels ◽  
Diabetes Complication ◽  
Retinal Blood Vessels ◽  
Multi Class Classification ◽  
Single Neural Network

Diabetic retinopathy (DR)— a leading cause of blindness— is a diabetes complication whichcauses damage to retinal blood vessels. DR can be treated non-invasively if diagnosed early enough.However, early diagnosis requires a medical examination, which may not be possible in some demographicalregions. Much previous work has largely focused on determining the presence of DR and not the severity.Thus, the goal of this study was to develop a single neural network that could 1) detect presence or absence of DR2) perform early detection of DR 3) perform multi-class classification on DR severity.

scholarly journals Retinal blood vessels segmentation using classical edge detection filters and the neural network

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 100521
Author(s):  
Beaudelaire Saha Tchinda ◽  
Daniel Tchiotsop ◽  
Michel Noubom ◽  
Valerie Louis-Dorr ◽  
Didier Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Edge Detection ◽  
Blood Vessels ◽  
The Neural Network ◽  
Retinal Blood Vessels

Classification and grading of diabetic retinopathy images using mixture of ensemble classifiers

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
R. Bhuvaneswari ◽  
S. Ganesh Vaidyanathan
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Diabetic Retinopathy ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Blood Vessels ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Network Architectures ◽  
Ensemble Classifiers ◽  
Feature Maps ◽  
Class Labels ◽  
Hierarchical Features

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is one of the most common diabetic diseases that affect the retina’s blood vessels. Too much of the glucose level in blood leads to blockage of blood vessels in the retina, weakening and damaging the retina. Automatic classification of diabetic retinopathy is a challenging task in medical research. This work proposes a Mixture of Ensemble Classifiers (MEC) to classify and grade diabetic retinopathy images using hierarchical features. We use an ensemble of classifiers such as support vector machine, random forest, and Adaboost classifiers that use the hierarchical feature maps obtained at every pooling layer of a convolutional neural network (CNN) for training. The feature maps are generated by applying the filters to the output of the previous layer. Lastly, we predict the class label or the grade for the given test diabetic retinopathy image by considering the class labels of all the ensembled classifiers. We have tested our approaches on the E-ophtha dataset for the classification task and the Messidor dataset for the grading task. We achieved an accuracy of 95.8% and 96.2% for the E-ophtha and Messidor datasets, respectively. A comparison among prominent convolutional neural network architectures and the proposed approach is provided.

Retinal blood vessels detection for diabetic retinopathy with Ridgelet transform and convolution neural network

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (06) ◽  
pp. 2050048
Author(s):  
Nirmal Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Diabetic Retinopathy ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Blood Vessels ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Convolution Neural Network ◽  
Transform Method ◽  
Ridgelet Transform ◽  
Study Results

Applying machine learning in life sciences, especially diagnostics, has become a key area of focus for researchers. Combining machine learning with traditional algorithms provides a unique opportunity of providing better solutions for the patients. In this paper, we present study results of applying the Ridgelet Transform method on retina images to enhance the blood vessels, then using machine learning algorithms to identify cases of Diabetic Retinopathy (DR). The Ridgelet transform provides better results for line singularity of image function and, thus, helps to reduce artefacts along the edges of the image. The Ridgelet Transform method, when compared with earlier known methods of image enhancement, such as Wavelet Transform and Contourlet Transform, provided satisfactory results. The transformed image using the Ridgelet Transform method with pre-processing quantifies the amount of information in the dataset. It efficiently enhances the generation of features vectors in the convolution neural network (CNN). In this study, a sample of fundus photographs was processed, which was obtained from a publicly available dataset. In pre-processing, first, CLAHE was applied, followed by filtering and application of Ridgelet transform on the patches to improve the quality of the image. Then, this processed image was used for statistical feature detection and classified by deep learning method to detect DR images from the dataset. The successful classification ratio was 98.61%. This result concludes that the transformed image of fundus using the Ridgelet Transform enables better detection by leveraging a transform-based algorithm and the deep learning.

scholarly journals A Machine Learning based Approach for Segmenting Retinal Nerve Images using Artificial Neural Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 5986-5991
Author(s):  
A. N. Saeed
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Diabetic Retinopathy ◽  
Blood Vessels ◽  
Back Propagation ◽  
Texture Feature ◽  
Texture Features ◽  
Classification Performance ◽  
Fundus Images ◽  
Retinal Blood Vessels

Artificial Intelligence (AI) based Machine Learning (ML) is gaining more attention from researchers. In ophthalmology, ML has been applied to fundus photographs, achieving robust classification performance in the detection of diseases such as diabetic retinopathy, retinopathy of prematurity, etc. The detection and extraction of blood vessels in the retina is an essential part of various diagnosing problems associated with eyes, such as diabetic retinopathy. This paper proposes a novel machine learning approach to segment the retinal blood vessels from eye fundus images using a combination of color features, texture features, and Back Propagation Neural Networks (BPNN). The proposed method comprises of two steps, namely the color texture feature extraction and training the BPNN to get the segmented retinal nerves. Magenta color and correlation-texture features are given as input to the BPNN. The system was trained and tested in retinal fundus images taken from two distinct databases. The average sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy obtained for the segmentation of retinal blood vessels were 0.470%, 0.914%, and 0.903% respectively. Results obtained reveal that the proposed methodology is excellent in automated segmentation retinal nerves. The proposed segmentation methodology was able to obtain comparable accuracy with other methods.

Non-Compactness Attribute Filtering to Extract Retinal Blood Vessels in Fundus Images

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. K. E. Purnama ◽  
K. Y. E. Aryanto ◽  
M. H. F. Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Diabetic Retinopathy ◽  
Blood Vessels ◽  
Human Vision ◽  
Retinal Images ◽  
Retinal Vessels ◽  
Fundus Images ◽  
Pathological Changes ◽  
Retinal Blood Vessels ◽  
Average Accuracy ◽  
Filtering Approach

Retinal blood vessels can give information about abnormalities or disease by examining its pathological changes. One abnormality is diabetic retinopathy, characterized by a disorder of retinal blood vessels resulting from diabetes mellitus. Currently, diabetic retinopathy is one of the major causes of human vision abnormalities and blindness. Hence, early detection can lead to proper treatment, and segmentation of the abnormality provides a map of retinal vessels that can facilitate the assessment of the characteristics of these vessels. In this paper, the authors propose a new method, consisting of a sequence of procedures, to segment blood vessels in a retinal image. In the method, attribute filtering with a so-called Max-Tree is used to represent the image based on its gray value. The filtering process is done using the branches filtering approach in which the tree branches are selected based on the non-compactness of the nodes. The selection is started from the leaves. This experiment was performed on 40 retinal images, and utilized the manual segmentation created by an observer to validate the results. The proposed method can deliver an average accuracy of 94.21%.

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