Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: Diabetic Retinopathy is a medical condition where the retina is damaged because fluid leaks from blood vessels into the retina. The presence of hemorrhages in the retina is the earliest symptom of diabetic retinopathy. The number and shape of hemorrhages is used to indicate the severity of the disease. Early automated hemorrhage detection can help reduce the incidence of blindness. This study introduced new method depending on the hemorrhage shape to detect the Dot Hemorrhage (DH), its number and size at early stage, this can be achieved by reducing the retinal image details. Detection and recognize the DH by following three sequential steps, removing the fovea, removing the vasculature and recognize DH by determining the circularity for all the objects in the image, finally determine the shape factor which is related to DH recognition, this stage strengthens the recognition process. The proposed method recognizes and separates all the DH.
Source: Journal of Computer Science
Author: El Abbadi
Institutions: University of Babylon, University of Kufa
Language: English
Topic: Retinal Imaging and Analysis
Subfield: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2154020920