Automatic cup-to-disc ratio estimation using active contours and color clustering in fundus images for glaucoma diagnosis

Authors:
Irene Fondón;Francisco Núñez;Mercedes Tirado;Soledad Jiménez;Pedro Alemany;Qaisar Abbas;Carmen Serrano;Begoña Acha
Affiliations:
Signal Theory Departament, University of Seville, Seville, Spain;Signal Theory Departament, University of Seville, Seville, Spain;Signal Theory Departament, University of Seville, Seville, Spain;Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar, Cádiz, Spain;Surgery Department, University of Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain;Department of Computer Science, National Textile University, Faisalabad, Pakistan;Signal Theory Departament, University of Seville, Seville, Spain;Signal Theory Departament, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
Venue:
ICIAR'12 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Image Analysis and Recognition - Volume Part II
Year:
2012

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a new automatic technique for the segmentation of the Optic Disc (OD) and optic nerve head (cup) regions in retinographies for glaucoma diagnosis. It provides an estimation of the Cup-to-Disc Ratio, the main clinical indicator of the disease. OD is detected combining intensity-based, multi-tolerance and morphological methods along with the active contour technique. Cup region is obtained with a new human perception adapted version of the well-known K-means algorithm in the uniform CIE L*a*b* color space with CIE94 color difference. For comparisons, the accurate cup border obtained is rounded and soften with two different techniques: ellipse fitting and mathematical morphology along with Gaussian Smoothing. The proposed method with both rounding steps has been tested in a database of 55 images and compared with the ground truth provided by an expert ophthalmologist. Both, OD and cup region, were satisfactory localized, achieving a mean error of 0.14 for ellipse fitting and 0.13 for morphology. The algorithm proposed seems to be a robust and reliable tool worthy to be included in any CAD system for glaucoma screening programs.