Abstract
Exudates are the most noticeable sign in the first stage of diabetic retinopathy. This disease causes about five percent of world blindness. Making use of retinal fundus images, exudates can be detected, which helps the early diagnosis of the pathology. In this work, a novel method for automatic hard exudate detection is presented. After an exhaustive pre-processing step, Local Binary Patterns Variance (LBPV) histograms are used to locally extract texture information. We then use Gaussian Processes to distinguish between healthy and pathological retinal patches. The proposed methodology is validated using the E-OPHTA exudates database. The experimental results demonstrate that Gaussian Process classifiers outperform the current state of the art classifiers for this problem.
This work has been supported in part by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad under contracts DPI2016-77869-C2-{1,2}-R, and the Department of Energy grant DE-NA0002520. The work of Adrián Colomer has been supported by the Spanish FPI Grant BES-2014-067889. We gratefully acknowledge the support of NVIDIA Corporation with the donation of the Titan Xp GPU used for this research.
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Colomer, A., Ruiz, P., Naranjo, V., Molina, R., Katsaggelos, A.K. (2018). Hard Exudate Detection Using Local Texture Analysis and Gaussian Processes. In: Campilho, A., Karray, F., ter Haar Romeny, B. (eds) Image Analysis and Recognition. ICIAR 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10882. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93000-8_73
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