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Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the major blindness-causing diseases currently known. Automatic grading of DR using deep learning methods not only speeds up the diagnosis of the disease but also reduces the rate of misdiagnosis.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-25 Lei Shi , Bin Wang , Junxing Zhang

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR), a prevalent and severe complication of diabetes, affects millions of individuals globally, underscoring the need for accurate and timely diagnosis. Recent advancements in imaging technologies, such as…

DRDr II is a hybrid of machine learning and deep learning worlds. It builds on the successes of its antecedent, namely, DRDr, that was trained to detect, locate, and create segmentation masks for two types of lesions (exudates and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Farzan Shenavarmasouleh , Farid Ghareh Mohammadi , M. Hadi Amini , Hamid R. Arabnia

Recently, diabetic retinopathy (DR) screening utilizing ultra-wide optical coherence tomography angiography (UW-OCTA) has been used in clinical practices to detect signs of early DR. However, developing a deep learning-based DR analysis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-19 Gitaek Kwon , Eunjin Kim , Sunho Kim , Seongwon Bak , Minsung Kim , Jaeyoung Kim

The diabetic retinopathy is timely diagonalized through color eye fundus images by experienced ophthalmologists, in order to recognize potential retinal features and identify early-blindness cases. In this paper, it is proposed to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Ibrahim Sadek , Mohamed Elawady , Abd El Rahman Shabayek

Although deep learning research and applications have grown rapidly over the past decade, it has shown limitation in healthcare applications and its reachability to people in remote areas. One of the challenges of incorporating deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-12 Misgina Tsighe Hagos

Longitudinal imaging is able to capture both static anatomical structures and dynamic changes in disease progression towards earlier and better patient-specific pathology management. However, conventional approaches for detecting diabetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Rachid Zeghlache , Pierre-Henri Conze , Mostafa El Habib Daho , Ramin Tadayoni , Pascal Massin , Béatrice Cochener , Gwenolé Quellec , Mathieu Lamard

Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a severe condition affecting premature infants, leading to abnormal retinal blood vessel growth, retinal detachment, and potential blindness. While semi-automated systems have been used in the past to…

Patients with long-standing diabetes often fall prey to Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) resulting in changes in the retina of the human eye, which may lead to loss of vision in extreme cases. The aim of this study is two-fold: (a) create deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-17 Shaswat Patel , Maithili Lohakare , Samyak Prajapati , Shaanya Singh , Nancy Patel

This paper addresses the problem of identifying two main types of lesions - Exudates and Microaneurysms - caused by Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) in the eyes of diabetic patients. We make use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Farzan Shenavarmasouleh , Hamid R. Arabnia

In this paper, we propose two distinct solutions to the problem of Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) classification. In the first approach, we introduce a shallow neural network architecture. This model performs well on classification of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Hangwei Zhuang , Nabil Ettehadi

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) grading is crucial in determining the adequate treatment and follow up of patients, but the screening process can be tiresome and prone to errors. Deep learning approaches have shown promising performance as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-01 Teresa Araújo , Guilherme Aresta , Luís Mendonça , Susana Penas , Carolina Maia , Ângela Carneiro , Ana Maria Mendonça , Aurélio Campilho

Retinal microaneurysms are the earliest clinical sign of diabetic retinopathy disease. Detection of microaneurysms is crucial for the early diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy and prevention of blindness. In this paper, a novel and reliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Behdad Dashtbozorg , Jiong Zhang , Bart M. ter Haar Romeny

Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of blindness around the world and demands precise AI-based diagnostic tools. Traditional loss functions in multi-class classification, such as Categorical Cross-Entropy (CCE), are very common but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Santhosh Malarvannan , Pandiyaraju V , Shravan Venkatraman , Abeshek A , Priyadarshini B , Kannan A

Retinitis pigmentosa (RP), one of the leading causes of vision loss and blindness globally, is a progressive retinal disease involving the degradation of photoreceptors (7) and/or retinal pigment epithelial cells (14). Affecting…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 Rickie Xian

Glaucoma is a leading cause of irreversible blindness, but early detection can significantly improve treatment outcomes. Traditional diagnostic methods are often invasive and require specialized equipment. In this work, we present a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Rishiraj Paul Chowdhury , Nirmit Shekar Karkera

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) affects individuals with long-term diabetes. Without early diagnosis, DR can lead to vision loss. Fundus photography captures the structure of the retina along with abnormalities indicative of the stage of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Anca Mihai , Adrian Groza

Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is an abnormal blood vessel development in the retina of a prematurely-born infant or an infant with low birth weight. ROP is one of the leading causes for infant blindness globally. Early detection of ROP…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-15 Xin Guo , Yusuke Kikuchi , Guan Wang , Jinglin Yi , Qiong Zou , Rui Zhou

We propose an automatic diabetic retinopathy (DR) analysis algorithm based on two-stages deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN). Compared to existing DCNN-based DR detection methods, the proposed algorithm have the following advantages:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Yehui Yang , Tao Li , Wensi Li , Haishan Wu , Wei Fan , Wensheng Zhang