A computational-intelligence-based approach for detection of exudates in diabetic retinopathy images

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 535-545

  Osareh, Alireza ^a   Shadgar, Bita ^a   Markham, Richard ^b  

^a SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY OF AHVAZ   (Iran)

^b BRISTOL EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fuzzy c means (FCMs); Gabor filters; Genetic algorithms (GAs); Neural networks; Retinal exudates; Thresolding

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; COLOR NORMALIZATION; COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DATA SETS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEATURE VECTORS; FUZZY C MEANS CLUSTERING; FUZZY C-MEANS (FCMS); GABOR FILTERS; GENETIC-BASED ALGORITHMS; LARGE IMAGES; MEDICAL SYSTEMS; PIXEL LEVEL; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; PREDICTIVITY; RETINAL EXUDATES; RETINAL IMAGE; SEGMENTED IMAGES; SEGMENTED REGIONS; THRESOLDING;

AIR FILTERS; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COLOR; EYE PROTECTION; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LABELS; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

EDGE DETECTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EXUDATE; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATHOLOGY; RETINA;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RETINA;

EID: 67749088658     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2008.2007493     Document Type: Conference Paper

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