A TWO-PHASE PRE-FILTERING APPROACH TO THE AUTOMATIC SCREENING OF DIGITAL FUNDUS IMAGES

Bálint Antal, András Hajdu, Adrienne Csutak, Tünde Pető

2010

Abstract

In this paper, we present an approach to decrease the computational burden of an automatic screening system designed for diabetic retinopathy. The proposed method consists of two steps. First, a pre-screening algorithm is considered to classify the input digital fundus images based on their abnormality. If an image is found to be abnormal, it will not be analyzed further with robust lesion detector algorithms. As an improvement, we introduce a novel feature extraction approach based on clinical observations. The second step of the proposed method detects regions which contain possible lesions for images that have been passed pre-screening. These regions will serve as inputs to lesion detectors later on, which can achieve better computational performance by operating on specific regions only instead of the entire image. Experimental results show that both two steps of the proposed approach are valid to efficiently exclude a large amount of data from further processing to improve the performance of an automatic screening system.

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Antal B., Hajdu A., Csutak A. and Pető T. (2010). A TWO-PHASE PRE-FILTERING APPROACH TO THE AUTOMATIC SCREENING OF DIGITAL FUNDUS IMAGES . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-19-5, pages 155-158. DOI: 10.5220/0002988101550158


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@conference{sigmap10,
author={Bálint Antal and András Hajdu and Adrienne Csutak and Tünde Pető},
title={A TWO-PHASE PRE-FILTERING APPROACH TO THE AUTOMATIC SCREENING OF DIGITAL FUNDUS IMAGES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={155-158},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002988101550158},
isbn={978-989-8425-19-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2010)
TI - A TWO-PHASE PRE-FILTERING APPROACH TO THE AUTOMATIC SCREENING OF DIGITAL FUNDUS IMAGES
SN - 978-989-8425-19-5
AU - Antal B.
AU - Hajdu A.
AU - Csutak A.
AU - Pető T.
PY - 2010
SP - 155
EP - 158
DO - 10.5220/0002988101550158