TELKOMNIKA (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control)
Vol 10, No 2: June 2012

Blood Vessel Enhancement and Segmentation for Screening of Diabetic Retinopathy

M. Usman Akram (Bahria University)
Ibaa Jamal (Bahria University)
Anam Tariq (Bahria University)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jun 2012

Abstract

Diabetic retinopathy is an eye disease caused by the increase of insulin in blood and it is one of the main cuases of blindness in idusterlized countries. It is a progressive disease and needs an early detection and treatment. Vascular pattern of human retina helps the ophthalmologists in automated screening and diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy. In this article, we present a method for vascular pattern ehnacement and segmentation. We present an automated system which uses wavelets to enhance the vascular pattern and then it applies a piecewise threshold probing and adaptive thresholding for vessel localization and segmentation respectively. The method is evaluated and tested using publicly available retinal databases and we further compare our method with already proposed techniques. 

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Journal Info

Abbrev

TELKOMNIKA

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT

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