Hybrid of the PMD Filter, the K-Means Clustering Method and the Level Set Method for Exudates Segmentation

Syaiful Anam, Zuraidah Fitriah, Nur Shofianah

2018

Abstract

Diabetic retinopathy is an eye disease caused by diabetes mellitus. Early diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy is necessary to avoid blindness. Exudate is one of the symptoms of the diabetic retinopathy. Ophthalmologists use the fundus images of a patient to extract the exudates for evaluating the diabetic retinopathy. The exudates segmentation of the fundus images is a difficult task for ophthalmologists because the fundus images often have poor qualities, such as the boundaries between objects in a less clear, low contrast and containing noise. There are many methods of segmentation, one of which is by using an active contour model. One of the known active contour models is the level set method. It has been widely applied in many applications in the image processing. However, it cannot work well on the noisy image. This paper proposes the hybrid of the PMD filter, K-means clustering method and the level set method for segmenting exudates. The PMD filter and K-means method are exploited to remove the noise. From the results of the experimental results obtained that the hybrid of K-means clustering method and the level set method is able to work better in segmenting fundus images than the standard level set method.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Anam S., Fitriah Z. and Shofianah N. (2018). Hybrid of the PMD Filter, the K-Means Clustering Method and the Level Set Method for Exudates Segmentation.In Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Islam - Volume 1: ICMIs, ISBN 978-989-758-407-7, pages 108-116. DOI: 10.5220/0008517901080116

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icmis18,
author={Syaiful Anam and Zuraidah Fitriah and Nur Shofianah},
title={Hybrid of the PMD Filter, the K-Means Clustering Method and the Level Set Method for Exudates Segmentation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Islam - Volume 1: ICMIs,},
year={2018},
pages={108-116},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008517901080116},
isbn={978-989-758-407-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Islam - Volume 1: ICMIs,
TI - Hybrid of the PMD Filter, the K-Means Clustering Method and the Level Set Method for Exudates Segmentation
SN - 978-989-758-407-7
AU - Anam S.
AU - Fitriah Z.
AU - Shofianah N.
PY - 2018
SP - 108
EP - 116
DO - 10.5220/0008517901080116