Convolutional Neural Networks for Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion recognition?

Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion (BRVO) is one of the most common retinal diseases that could impair people´s vision seriously if it is not timely diagnosed and treated. It would save a lot of time and money for both medical institutions and patients if BRVO could be well recognized automatically. In this paper, we propose to exploit Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for BRVO recognition. We propose patch-based method and image-based voting method to implement the recognition. As it could learn abstract and useful features, CNN can achieve a high recognition accuracy. The accuracy of CNN is over 97%. Experimental results demonstrate the efficiency of our proposed CNN based methods for BRVO recognition.