Diabetic Retinopathy Imaging: Network Exudate Detection to Classify Abnormalities

The DR becomes increasingly common, there is a need to automatically extract and classify disease severity. Due to diabetes problems, about 2% of people with this disease become completely blind, and DR complications make him 10% visually impaired if he has diabetes for 15 years. Furthermore, it plays an important role in the progression of blindness in middle-aged and older adults. If the disease is not recognized as soon as possible, patients can experience a severe stage of irreversible blindness. The shortage of ophthalmologists is a serious problem for the growing number of diabetic patients. Hard exudates must be found to screen and assist in disease monitoring and diagnosis. Therefore, Lloyd's clustering technique was used in this work.