Blood Vessel Enhancement and Segmentation for Screening of Diabetic Retinopathy
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.
Author: M. Usman Akram, Ibaa
Jamal, Anam Tariq
Journal Code: jptkomputergg120056
