Early detection of diabetic retinopathy (DR) can prevent blindness and improve the quality of life. Practical detection requires a cost-effective screening over a large population. The presence of Microaneurysms (MAs) in a retinal image is the earliest sign of DR. This paper presents an efficient method to automatically detect MAs in a retinal image. The method is based on an advanced wavelet transform and the C4.5 algorithm (a categorization algorithm to distinguish DR and non-DR cases). It uses both the green and red channel data in RGB retinal images for detection of small sized MAs and obtains image feature parameters from the input image. A system was developed to implement the proposed method that displayed a sensitivity of 0.92 and a precision of 0.82.
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Park, M., & Summons, P. (2018). Diabetic retinopathy classification using C4.5. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 11016 LNAI, pp. 90–101). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97289-3_7
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