Comparative pixel-level exudate recognition in colour retinal images

  • Authors:
  • Alireza Osareh;Bita Shadgar;Richard Markham

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Shahid Chamran University, Ahwaz, Iran;Department of Computer Science, Shahid Chamran University, Ahwaz, Iran;Bristol Eye Hospital, Bristol, U.K

  • Venue:
  • ICIAR'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Image Analysis and Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Retinal exudates are typically manifested as spatially random yellow/white patches of varying sizes and shapes. They are a visible sign of retinal diseases such as diabetic retinopathy. Following some key preprocessing steps, colour retinal image pixels are classified to exudate and non-exudate classes. K nearest neighbour, Gaussian quadratic and Gaussian mixture model classifiers are investigated within the pixel-level exudate recognition framework. A Gaussian mixture model-based classifier demonstrated the best classification performance with 89.2% sensitivity and 81.0% predictivity in terms of pixel-level accuracy and 92.5% sensitivity and 81.4% specificity in terms of image-based accuracy.