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Automatic detection of retinal hemorrhages by exploiting image processing techniques for screening retinal diseases in diabetic patients

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Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the main retinal abnormalities which is asymptomatic and is the main cause of vision loss in diabetic patients. The computer-aided diagnosis systems based on image processing not only facilitate the doctor but also decrease the diagnosis time. This work represents the automated detection of one of the red lesion, i.e., hemorrhages, which are one of the most distinctive signs of retinal diseases in diabetic patients. In the proposed method, the foremost step is to enhance the image quality by eliminating the background noise and nonuniform illumination. This is achieved by applying the methods such as image contrast enhancement and normalization. The subsequent step is to segment the blood vessels from hemorrhages (using scale-based method) as both of them have the same color. The last step is to delineate the hemorrhages by exploiting the gamma correction and global thresholding techniques. The proposed method has achieved specificity (SP) of 84%, sensitivity (SN) of 87%, and an accuracy of 89 % on the DIARETDB1 database.

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  1. Department of Computing, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan

    Rafia Mumtaz, Muddasser Hussain, Saba Sarwar & Komal Khan

  2. Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Imam AbdulRahman Bin Faisal University, (Formerly University of Dammam), Dammam, Saudi Arabia

    Sadaf Mumtaz

  3. Department of Electronics Engineering, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan

    Mustafa Mumtaz

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Mumtaz, R., Hussain, M., Sarwar, S. et al. Automatic detection of retinal hemorrhages by exploiting image processing techniques for screening retinal diseases in diabetic patients. Int J Diabetes Dev Ctries 38, 80–87 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13410-017-0561-6

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