AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF HARD EXUDATES AND OPTIC DISC IN DIGITAL FUNDUS IMAGES

Elizabeth Chavez-Hernandez, M. Elena Martinez-Perez

2012

Abstract

Automatic detection of characteristic patterns of diabetic retinopathy such as hard exudates may help to an early diagnosis. Methods for automatic detection of hard exudates and optic disc are presented. Exudates detection involves a preprocessing stage, threshold selection and region growing. For optic disc detection a Bayes classifier is applied followed by mathematical morphology techniques in order to improve the final result. The methods here presented were evaluated using the IMAGERET database, which contains fundus images evaluated by qualified experts. In average, the area of exudates automatically detected overlaped with 60.75% and 63.91% areas defined by each of the two experts. For optic disc detection, sensitivity and specificity were 72.12% and 95.56% respectively.

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Chavez-Hernandez E. and Elena Martinez-Perez M. (2012). AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF HARD EXUDATES AND OPTIC DISC IN DIGITAL FUNDUS IMAGES . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: MIAD, (BIOSTEC 2012) ISBN 978-989-8425-89-8, pages 543-547. DOI: 10.5220/0003890905430547


in Bibtex Style

@conference{miad12,
author={Elizabeth Chavez-Hernandez and M. Elena Martinez-Perez},
title={AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF HARD EXUDATES AND OPTIC DISC IN DIGITAL FUNDUS IMAGES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: MIAD, (BIOSTEC 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={543-547},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003890905430547},
isbn={978-989-8425-89-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: MIAD, (BIOSTEC 2012)
TI - AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF HARD EXUDATES AND OPTIC DISC IN DIGITAL FUNDUS IMAGES
SN - 978-989-8425-89-8
AU - Chavez-Hernandez E.
AU - Elena Martinez-Perez M.
PY - 2012
SP - 543
EP - 547
DO - 10.5220/0003890905430547