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JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION
Volume 33, Issue 1, Pages 74-83Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.33.000074
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- European Commission (EC) [287841]
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) [TIN2012-39279, TIN2013-45920-R]
- Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte (MECD) [CAS14/00238, PRX14/00614]
- Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena (UPCT) (PMPDI)
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We develop an automated image processing system for detecting microaneurysm (MA) in diabetic patients. Diabetic retinopathy is one of the main causes of preventable blindness in working age diabetic people with the presence of an MA being one of the first signs. We transform the eye fundus images to the L*a*b* color space in order to separately process the L* and a* channels, looking for MAs in each of them. We then fuse the results, and last send the MA candidates to a k-nearest neighbors classifier for final assessment. The performance of the method, measured against 50 images with an ophthalmologist's hand-drawn ground-truth, shows high sensitivity (100%) and accuracy (84%), and running times around 10 s. This kind of automatic image processing application is important in order to reduce the burden on the public health system associated with the diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy given the high number of potential patients that need periodic screening. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America
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