Optical disc detection in retinal images

Lasers are currently used for a wide spectrum of medical applications, including the treatment of eye disorders. When combined with digital image processing techniques, the issue of retinal image segmentation becomes of high importance. In this paper, our purpose is twofold: i) to identify and briefly present the existing approaches for the retinal image segmentation and ii) to test our hypothesis that the Viola-Jones algorithm-initially designed for face detection-can be suited as well for optical disc detection.