Diagnosing and ranking retinopathy disease level using diabetic fundus image recuperation approach

Abstract

Retinal fundus images are widely used in diagnosing different types of eye diseases. The existing methods such as Feature based Macular Edema Detection (FMED) and Optimally Adjusted Morphological Operator (OAMO) effectively detected the presence of exudation in fundus images and identified the true positive ratio of exudates detection respectively. These mechanically detected exudates did not include more detailed feature selection technique to the system for detection of diabetic retinopathy. To categorize the exudates, Diabetic Fundus Image Recuperation (DFIR) method based on sliding window approach is developed in this work to select the features of optic cup in digital retinal fundus images. The DFIR feature selection uses collection of sliding windows with varying range to obtain the features based on the histogram value using group sparsity non-overlapping function. Using support vector model in the second phase, the DFIR method based on spiral basis function effectively ranks the diabetic retinopathy diseases level. The ranking of disease level on each candidate set provides a much promising result for developing practically automated and assisted diabetic retinopathy diagnosis system. Experimental work on digital fundus images using the DFIR method performs research on the factors such as sensitivity, ranking efficiency and feature selection time.