TY - GEN
T1 - Microaneurysm detection with radon transform-based classification on retina images
AU - Giancardo, L.
AU - Meriaudeau, F.
AU - Karnowski, T. P.
AU - Li, Y.
AU - Tobin, K. W.
AU - Chaum, E.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The creation of an automatic diabetic retinopathy screening system using retina cameras is currently receiving considerable interest in the medical imaging community. The detection of microaneurysms is a key element in this effort. In this work, we propose a new microaneurysms segmentation technique based on a novel application of the radon transform, which is able to identify these lesions without any previous knowledge of the retina morphological features and with minimal image preprocessing. The algorithm has been evaluated on the Retinopathy Online Challenge public dataset, and its performance compares with the best current techniques. The performance is particularly good at low false positive ratios, which makes it an ideal candidate for diabetic retinopathy screening systems.
AB - The creation of an automatic diabetic retinopathy screening system using retina cameras is currently receiving considerable interest in the medical imaging community. The detection of microaneurysms is a key element in this effort. In this work, we propose a new microaneurysms segmentation technique based on a novel application of the radon transform, which is able to identify these lesions without any previous knowledge of the retina morphological features and with minimal image preprocessing. The algorithm has been evaluated on the Retinopathy Online Challenge public dataset, and its performance compares with the best current techniques. The performance is particularly good at low false positive ratios, which makes it an ideal candidate for diabetic retinopathy screening systems.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84055189171&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091562
DO - 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091562
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 22255692
AN - SCOPUS:84055189171
SN - 9781424441211
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 5939
EP - 5942
BT - 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2011
T2 - 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2011
Y2 - 30 August 2011 through 3 September 2011
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