Computer-Assisted Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy and its Classification into Different Stages

Abstract

Diabetic retinopathy is a diabetes impediment that harms the eyes. It originates in the light-delicate tissue’s blood artery and veins at the rear of the eye. DR detection is an important task which makes use of the retinal images for the early observation and nursing, and can dormantly decrease the possibility of blindness. Retinal photos play a notable part in diabetic retinopathy (DR) for disease identification, illness recognition, and nursing. The recent methodologies are not pleased with sensitivity and specificity. In reality, there are yet other matters to be set on in the recent procedure such as effective performance, correctness, as well as easy identification of the DR disease.

The aim of this project is to begin an identification system for the recognition of Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) and its periods using appropriate photo processing and Deep-Learning Techniques. Texture features are extracted from segmented fundus images of retina. The input photographs are collected from Kaggle Datasets. Different features are extracted, and the classifier is trained with different images of all the datasets. The classifier identifies the presence of DR and also its stages like: Normal eyes, Mild DR, Moderate DR, Severe DR, and Proliferative DR.