Detection of microaneurysms using ant colony algorithm in the early diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy

Medical Hypotheses
Turab Selçuk, Ahmet Alkan

Abstract

Microaneurysms are lesions in the shape of small circular dilations which result from thinning in peripheral retinal blood vessels due to diabetes and increasing intra-retinal blood pressure. Because it is considered as the most important clinical finding in the diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy, accurate detection of these lesions bear utmost importance in the early diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy. The present study aims to accurately, effectively and automatically detect microaneurysms which are difficult to detect in color fundus images in early stage. To this aim, ant colony algorithm, which is an important optimization method, was used instead of conventional image processing techniques. First, retinal vascular structure was extracted from color fundus images in Messidor and DiaretDB1 data sets. Afterwards, the segmentation of microaneurysms was effectively carried out using ant colony algorithm. The same procedure was also applied to five different image processing and clustering algorithms (watershed, random walker, k-means, maximum entropy and region growing) in order to compare the performance of the proposed method with other methods. Microaneurysm images manually detected by a specialist eye doctor were used to mea...Continue Reading

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