scholarly journals Image Encryption and Decryption System through a Hybrid Approach Using the Jigsaw Transform and Langton’s Ant Applied to Retinal Fundus Images

Axioms ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Andrés Romero-Arellano ◽  
Ernesto Moya-Albor ◽  
Jorge Brieva ◽  
Ivan Cruz-Aceves ◽  
Juan Gabriel Avina-Cervantes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Image Encryption ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Fundus Images ◽  
Differential Attack ◽  
Method Performance ◽  
Retinal Fundus Images ◽  
Retinal Fundus

In this work, a new medical image encryption/decryption algorithm was proposed. It is based on three main parts: the Jigsaw transform, Langton’s ant, and a novel way to add deterministic noise. The Jigsaw transform was used to hide visual information effectively, whereas Langton’s ant and the deterministic noise algorithm give a reliable and secure approach. As a case study, the proposal was applied to high-resolution retinal fundus images, where a zero mean square error was obtained between the original and decrypted image. The method performance has been proven through several testing methods, such as statistical analysis (histograms and correlation distributions), entropy computation, keyspace assessment, robustness to differential attack, and key sensitivity analysis, showing in each one a high security level. In addition, the method was compared against other works showing a competitive performance and highlighting with a large keyspace (>1×101,134,190.38). Besides, the method has demonstrated adequate handling of high-resolution images, obtaining entropy values between 7.999988 and 7.999989, an average Number of Pixel Change Rate (NPCR) of 99.5796%±0.000674, and a mean Uniform Average Change Intensity (UACI) of 33.4469%±0.00229. In addition, when there is a small change in the key, the method does not give additional information to decrypt the image.

scholarly journals Retinal Fundus Image Blood Vessels Segmentation via Object-Oriented Metadata Structures

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.33) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Ahmad Firdaus Ahmad Fadzil ◽  
Zaaba Ahmad ◽  
Noor Elaiza Abd Khalid ◽  
Shafaf Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Blood Vessels ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Processing Technique ◽  
Image Processing Technique ◽  
Fundus Images ◽  
Fundus Image ◽  
Retinal Fundus Image ◽  
Retinal Fundus Images ◽  
Retinal Fundus

Retinal fundus image is a crucial tool for ophthalmologists to diagnose eye-related diseases. These images provide visual information of the interior layer of the retina structures such as optic disc, optic cup, blood vessels and macula that can assist ophthalmologist in determining the health of an eye. Segmentation of blood vessels in fundus images is one of the most fundamental phase in detecting diseases such as diabetic retinopathy. However, the ambiguity of the retina structures in the retinal fundus images presents a challenge for researcher to segment the blood vessels. Extensive pre-processing and training of the images is necessary for precise segmentation, which is very intricate and laborious. This paper proposes the implementation of object-oriented-based metadata (OOM) structures of each pixel in the retinal fundus images. These structures comprise of additional metadata towards the conventional red, green, and blue data for each pixel within the images. The segmentation of the blood vessels in the retinal fundus images are performed by considering these additional metadata that enunciates the location, color spaces, and neighboring pixels of each individual pixel. From the results, it is shown that accurate segmentation of retinal fundus blood vessels can be achieved by purely employing straightforward thresholding method via the OOM structures without extensive pre-processing image processing technique or data training.      

scholarly journals Automatic detection of hard and soft exudates from retinal fundus images

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bálint Borsos ◽  
László Nagy ◽  
David Iclănzan ◽  
László Szilágyi
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Automatic Detection ◽  
Retinal Images ◽  
Data Normalization ◽  
Fundus Images ◽  
Foreground Pixel ◽  
Established Procedure ◽  
Retinal Fundus Images ◽  
Retinal Fundus

Abstract According to WHO estimates, 400 million people suffer from diabetes, and this number is likely to double by year 2030. Unfortunately, diabetes can have severe complications like glaucoma or retinopathy, which both can cause blindness. The main goal of our research is to provide an automated procedure that can detect retinopathy-related lesions of the retina from fundus images. This paper focuses on the segmentation of so-called white lesions of the retina that include hard and soft exudates. The established procedure consists of three main phases. The preprocessing step compensates the various luminosity patterns found in retinal images, using background and foreground pixel extraction and a data normalization operator similar to Z-transform. This is followed by a modified SLIC algorithm that provides homogeneous superpixels in the image. The final step is an ANN-based classification of pixels using fifteen features extracted from the neighborhood of the pixels taken from the equalized images and from the properties of the superpixel where the pixel belongs. The proposed methodology was tested using high-resolution fundus images originating from the IDRiD database. Pixelwise accuracy is characterized by a 54% Dice score in average, but the presence of exudates is detected with 94% precision.

Diagnose Glaucoma in Retinal fundus Images

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javedkhan Y. Pathan ◽  
Dr.Pramod Patil
Keyword(s):  
Fundus Images ◽  
Retinal Fundus Images ◽  
Retinal Fundus

Two-Tier Grading System for NPDR Severities of Diabetic Retinopathy in Retinal Fundus Images

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charu Bhardwaj ◽  
Shruti Jain ◽  
Meenakshi Sood
Keyword(s):  
Diabetic Retinopathy ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Image Feature ◽  
Grading System ◽  
Fundus Images ◽  
Fundus Image ◽  
Retinal Fundus Images ◽  
Retinal Fundus ◽  
Timely Treatment

: Diabetic Retinopathy is the leading cause of vision impairment and its early stage diagnosis relies on regular monitoring and timely treatment for anomalies exhibiting subtle distinction among different severity grades. The existing Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) detection approaches are subjective, laborious and time consuming which can only be carried out by skilled professionals. All the patents related to DR detection and diagnoses applicable for our research problem were revised by the authors. The major limitation in classification of severities lies in poor discrimination between actual lesions, background noise and other anatomical structures. A robust and computationally efficient Two-Tier DR (2TDR) grading system is proposed in this paper to categorize various DR severities (mild, moderate and severe) present in retinal fundus images. In the proposed 2TDR grading system, input fundus image is subjected to background segmentation and the foreground fundus image is used for anomaly identification followed by GLCM feature extraction forming an image feature set. The novelty of our model lies in the exhaustive statistical analysis of extracted feature set to obtain optimal reduced image feature set employed further for classification. Classification outcomes are obtained for both extracted as well as reduced feature set to validate the significance of statistical analysis in severity classification and grading. For single tier classification stage, the proposed system achieves an overall accuracy of 100% by k- Nearest Neighbour (kNN) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) classifier. In second tier classification stage an overall accuracy of 95.3% with kNN and 98.0% with ANN is achieved for all stages utilizing optimal reduced feature set. 2TDR system demonstrates overall improvement in classification performance by 2% and 6% for kNN and ANN respectively after feature set reduction, and also outperforms the accuracy obtained by other state of the art methods when applied to the MESSIDOR dataset. This application oriented work aids in accurate DR classification for effective diagnosis and timely treatment of severe retinal ailment.

scholarly journals Modeling and Enhancing Low-Quality Retinal Fundus Images

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Ziyi Shen ◽  
Huazhu Fu ◽  
Jianbing Shen ◽  
Ling Shao
Keyword(s):  
Fundus Images ◽  
Retinal Fundus Images ◽  
Retinal Fundus
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