Level-set based automatic cup-to-disc ratio determination using retinal fundus images in ARGALI

Glaucoma - a disease which causes damage to our eye's optic nerve and subsequently blinds the vision. This occurs due to increased intraocular pressure (IOP) which causes the damage of optic nerve axons at the back of the eye, with eventual deterioration of vision. Presently, many works have been done towards automatic glaucoma detection using Fundus Images (FI) by extracting structural features. Structural features can be extracted from optic nerve head (ONH) analysis, cup to disc ratio (CDR) and Inferior, Superior, Nasal, Temporal (ISNT) rule in Fundus Image for glaucoma assessment.This survey presents various techniques for the early detection of glaucoma. Among the various techniques, retinal image-based detection plays a major role as it comes under non-invasive methods of detection. Here, a review and study were conducted for the different techniques of glaucoma detection using retinal fundus images. The objective of this survey is to obtain a technique which automatically analyze the retinal images of the eye with high efficiency and accuracy

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Automatic Segmentation of Optic Disc and Cup in Retinal Fundus Images Using Improved Two-Layer Level Set Method

Mathematical Problems in Engineering ◽

10.1155/2019/4836296 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2019 ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

Ying Wang ◽

Xiaosheng Yu ◽

Jianning Chi ◽

Chengdong Wu

Keyword(s):

Optic Disc ◽

Level Set Method ◽

Level Set ◽

Superior Performance ◽

Research Database ◽

Fundus Images ◽

Shape Constraint ◽

Retinal Fundus Images ◽

Retinal Fundus ◽

Prior Shape

Glaucoma is a group of eye conditions, which can seriously damage optic nerves because of an elevated intraocular pressure. Nowadays, glaucoma has become one of the principal causes of blindness that results in irreversible visual loss. Early screening and treatment of glaucoma can prevent further progression of optic nerve degeneration effectively. The vertical cup-to-disc ratio (CDR) is a commonly used measurement for the detection of glaucoma, and therefore accurate segmentation of optic disc (OD) and optic cup (OC) regions in retinal fundus images is of great significance. In this paper, we present a prior shape constraint-based two-layer level set method for OD and OC segmentation in fundus images. This method uses two different layers of one level set function to represent the OD and OC boundaries. In this method, the distance regularized term is designed to guarantee that the distance between the OD and OC varies smoothly. By introducing the prior shape constraint term energy, the final segmentation results of OD and OC are always in the shape of approximate ellipses. In addition, the proposed method has the property of dealing with the intensity inhomogeneity of fundus images through the local fitting energy embedded. Experiments on images from the Baidu Research database demonstrate that the proposed method has superior performance in terms of accuracy and effectiveness.

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