Morphology-based exudates detection from color fundus images in diabetic retinopathy

Author

Akter, M. ; Uddin, Mohammad Shorif ; Khan, Muhammad H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Jahangirnagar Univ., Dhaka, Bangladesh

fYear

2014

fDate

10-12 April 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Retinopathy is a diabetic-related complication and main cause of vision loss of the diabetic patients. Exudates are the major sign of diabetic retinopathy. This paper presents a morphology-based method for the detection of diabetic retinopathy through exudates from color fundus images. We applied our approach on fundus images and obtained satisfactory results, which are compared with the ophthalmologists´ hand-drawn ground truths.

Keywords

biomedical optical imaging; diseases; eye; image colour analysis; image segmentation; medical image processing; vision defects; color fundus imaging; diabetic patients; diabetic retinopathy; diabetic retinopathy through exudate detection; diabetic-related complication; hand-drawn ground truths; morphology-based exudate detection; morphology-based method; vision loss; Biomedical imaging; Blindness; Diabetes; Image color analysis; Optical imaging; Retina; Retinopathy; Diabetic retinopathy; exudates; haemorrhages; microaneurysms and blindness;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Engineering and Information & Communication Technology (ICEEICT), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dhaka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4820-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEEICT.2014.6919124

Filename

6919124