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Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is essential for diagnosing conditions such as glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and age-related macular degeneration. Accurate retinal layer segmentation enables quantitative biomarkers critical for…

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Over the last decade, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models have been highly successful in solving complex vision problems. However, these deep models are perceived as "black box" methods considering the lack of understanding of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Aditya Chattopadhyay , Anirban Sarkar , Prantik Howlader , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

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

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown exceptional performance for a range of medical imaging tasks. However, conventional CNNs are not able to explain their reasoning process, therefore limiting their adoption in clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Linde S. Hesse , Ana I. L. Namburete

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a complication of diabetes and usually takes decades to reach sight-threatening levels. Accurate and robust detection of DR severity is critical for the timely management and treatment of diabetes. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Qinkai Yu , Jianyang Xie , Anh Nguyen , He Zhao , Jiong Zhang , Huazhu Fu , Yitian Zhao , Yalin Zheng , Yanda Meng

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the leading causes of blindness. However, no specific symptoms of early DR lead to a delayed diagnosis, which results in disease progression in patients. To determine the disease severity levels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Li Tian , Liyan Ma , Zhijie Wen , Shaorong Xie , Yupeng Xu

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is one of the major causes of visual impairment and blindness across the world. It is usually found in patients who suffer from diabetes for a long period. The major focus of this work is to derive optimal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 J. D. Bodapati , N. Veeranjaneyulu , S. N. Shareef , S. Hakak , M. Bilal , P. K. R. Maddikunta , O. Jo

In this work, deep learning algorithms are used to classify fundus images in terms of diabetic retinopathy severity. Six different combinations of two model architectures, the Dense Convolutional Network-121 and the Residual Neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-20 Jonathan Zhang , Bowen Xie , Xin Wu , Rahul Ram , David Liang

In this paper, we propose an explainable and interpretable diabetic retinopathy (ExplainDR) classification model based on neural-symbolic learning. To gain explainability, a highlevel symbolic representation should be considered in decision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Se-In Jang , Michael J. A. Girard , Alexandre H. Thiery

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a retinal microvascular condition that emerges in diabetic patients. DR will continue to be a leading cause of blindness worldwide, with a predicted 191.0 million globally diagnosed patients in 2030.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Mihir Rao , Michelle Zhu , Tianyang Wang

In many medical imaging tasks, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) efficiently extract local features hierarchically. More recently, vision transformers (ViTs) have gained popularity, using self-attention mechanisms to capture global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Kerol Djoumessi , Samuel Ofosu Mensah , Philipp Berens

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the form of an interpretable and semiautomatic approach to stage grading ocular pathologies such as Diabetic retinopathy, Hypertensive retinopathy, and other retinopathies on the backdrop of major…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-15 Ayushi Raj Bhatt , Rajkumar Vaghashiya , Meghna Kulkarni , Dr Prakash Kamaraj

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of vision loss worldwide, and early diagnosis through automated retinal image analysis can significantly reduce the risk of blindness. This paper presents a robust deep learning framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Faisal Ahmed

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) refers to a barrier that takes place in diabetes mellitus damaging the blood vessel network present in the retina. This may endanger the subjects' vision if they have diabetes. It can take some time to perform a DR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 V. Banupriya , S. Anusuya

Deep learning classifiers provide the most accurate means of automatically diagnosing diabetic retinopathy (DR) based on optical coherence tomography (OCT) and its angiography (OCTA). The power of these models is attributable in part to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Pengxiao Zang , Tristan T. Hormel , Jie Wang , Yukun Guo , Steven T. Bailey , Christina J. Flaxel , David Huang , Thomas S. Hwang , Yali Jia

In this project, we developed a deep learning system applied to human retina images for medical diagnostic decision support. The retina images were provided by EyePACS. These images were used in the framework of a Kaggle contest, whose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Maria Camila Alvarez Trivino , Jeremie Despraz , Jesus Alfonso Lopez Sotelo , Carlos Andres Pena

Cataract remains a leading cause of visual impairment worldwide, and early detection from retinal imaging is critical for timely intervention. We present a deep learning pipeline for cataract classification using the Ocular Disease…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 MohammadReza Abbaszadeh Bavil Soflaei , Karim SamadZamini

Though deep learning has shown successful performance in classifying the label and severity stage of certain diseases, most of them give few explanations on how to make predictions. Inspired by Koch's Postulates, the foundation in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-02 Yuhao Niu , Lin Gu , Yitian Zhao , Feng Lu

Accurate skin disease classification is a critical yet challenging task due to high inter-class similarity, intra-class variability, and complex lesion textures. While deep learning-based computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Enam Ahmed Taufik , Abdullah Khondoker , Antara Firoz Parsa , Seraj Al Mahmud Mostafa

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) stands as the leading cause of blindness globally, particularly affecting individuals between the ages of 20 and 70. This paper presents a Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system designed for the automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-31 Inas Al-Kamachy , Reza Hassanpour , Roya Choupani