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Exudate Identification in Retinal Fundus Images Using Precise Textural Verifications Publisher Pubmed



Monemian M1 ; Rabbani H1
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  1. 1. Medical Image and Signal Processing Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

Source: Scientific Reports Published:2023


Abstract

One of the most salient diseases of retina is Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) which may lead to irreparable damages to eye vision in the advanced phases. A large number of the people infected with diabetes experience DR. The early identification of DR signs facilitates the treatment process and prevents from blindness. Hard Exudates (HE) are bright lesions appeared in retinal fundus images of DR patients. Thus, the detection of HEs is an important task preventing the progress of DR. However, the detection of HEs is a challenging process due to their different appearance features. In this paper, an automatic method for the identification of HEs with various sizes and shapes is proposed. The method works based on a pixel-wise approach. It considers several semi-circular regions around each pixel. For each semi-circular region, the intensity changes around several directions and non-necessarily equal radiuses are computed. All pixels for which several semi-circular regions include considerable intensity changes are considered as the pixels located in HEs. In order to reduce false positives, an optic disc localization method is proposed in the post-processing phase. The performance of the proposed method has been evaluated on DIARETDB0 and DIARETDB1 datasets. The experimental results confirm the improved performance of the suggested method in term of accuracy. © 2023, The Author(s).
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