Title :
Laser marks detection from fundus images
Author :
Tahir, Faraz ; Akram, M. Usman ; Abbass, Mujahid ; Khan, Albab Ahmad
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Abstract :
Eye diseases such as diabetic retinopathy may cause blindness. At the advanced stages of diabetic retinopathy further disease progression is stopped using laser treatment. Laser treatment leaves behind marks on the retinal surface that causes misbehaviors in automated retinal diagnostic system. These laser marks hinders the further analysis of the retinal images so it is desirable to detect laser marks and remove them to avoid any unnecessary processing. This paper presents a method to automatically detect laser marks from the retinal images and present some results based on the performance evaluation.
Keywords :
diseases; eye; laser applications in medicine; medical image processing; patient diagnosis; automated retinal diagnostic system; diabetic retinopathy; disease progression; eye diseases; fundus images; laser marks detection; laser treatment; retinal images; unnecessary processing; Biomedical imaging; Diabetes; Diseases; Feature extraction; Lasers; Retina; Retinopathy; Diabetic retinopathy; Laser treatment; Retinal images; laser marks;
Conference_Titel :
Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS), 2014 14th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-7632-4
DOI :
10.1109/HIS.2014.7086188
