Diabetic Retinopathy Detection by Extracting Area and Number of Microaneurysm from Colour Fundus Image

This paper presents an improved diabetic retinopathy detection scheme by extracting accurate area and ate number of microaneurysm from color fundus images. Regular screening of eye is crucial for detection and dealing with diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is an eye disease which occurs due to damage of retina as a result of long illness of diabetic mellitus. Microaneurysms (MA) are tiny red spots on retina, shaped by inflating out of fragile part of the blood vessels. The recognition of MA at primary stage is very crucial and it is the first step in inhibiting DR. A variety of methods have been proposed for detection and diagnosis of DR. In this paper, there are two features namely; number and area of MA have been determined. Initially, pre-processing techniques like green channel extraction, histogram equalization and morphological process have been used. For detection of microaneurysms, principal component analysis (PCA), contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE), morphological process, averaging filtering have been used. Classification of DR has been done by linear Support vector machine (SVM). The sensitivity and specificity of DR detection system are observed as 96% and 92% respectively.