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Hybrid multi-kernel SVM algorithm for detection of microaneurysm in color fundus images

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Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a chronic disease that may cause vision loss in diabetic patients. Microaneurysms which are characterized by small red spots on the retina due to fluid or blood leakage from the weak capillary wall often occur during the early stage of DR, making screening at this stage is essential. In this paper, an automatic screening system for early detection of DR in retinal images is developed using a combined shape and texture features. Due to minimum number of hand-crafted features, the computational burden is much reduced. The proposed hybrid multi-kernel support vector machine classifier is constructed by learning a kernel model formed as a combination of the base kernels. This approach outperforms the recent deep learning techniques in terms of the evaluation metrics. The efficiency of the proposed scheme is experimentally validated on three public datasets — Retinopathy Online Challenge, DIARETdB1, MESSIDOR, and AGAR300 (developed for this study). Studies reveal that the proposed model produced the best results of 0.503 in ROC dataset, 0.481 in DIARETdB1, and 0.464 in the MESSIDOR dataset in terms of FROC score. The AGAR300 database outperforms the existing MA detection algorithm in terms of FROC, AUC, F1 score, precision, sensitivity, and specificity which guarantees the robustness of this system.

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Derwin, D.J., Shan, B.P. & Singh, O.J. Hybrid multi-kernel SVM algorithm for detection of microaneurysm in color fundus images. Med Biol Eng Comput 60, 1377–1390 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11517-022-02534-y

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