Diabetic Retinopathy Diagnosis in OCT images using Convolutional Neural Network

Diabetes Mellitus or Diabetes occurs when the glucose content in blood is high. Diabetes Mellitus affects the eye. Diabetes Mellitus leads to the damage of blood vessels of retina termed as Diabetic Retinopathy. Diabetic Retinopathy in its initial stage has no /mild symptoms. But the progression rate of Diabetic Retinopathy is very high. Eventually, Diabetic Retinopathy causes unexpected visualization failure left untreated. Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems assist doctors during diagnosis. This paper proposes an automatic diagnosis system to accurately classify the stages of Diabetic Retinopathy in Optical Coherence Tomography retinal images using Convolutional Neural Networks.