Diabetic retinopathy is a disease that infects the vision of human eyes suffering from diabetes. It affects the blood vessels of soft tissues at retina, which is located at the backside of the eyes. This disease is evaluated by the physicians based on the retinal images of patients. Detection of the disease initiates human-intensive work for medical practitioners with monetary expenses also. Recent research works have identified that the use of deep learning methods for automatic detection of diabetic retinopathy helps the experts to make quick decision about the patient’s health conditions. In this paper, automated detection of diabetic retinopathy using deep belief networks has been presented which process the retinal images of patients and provides accurate diagnosis of categories of diabetic retinopathy. The proposed method has been trained and tested with Convolutional Neural Networks and Deep Belief Networks. The confidence level of diagnosis is computed and 94.69% with 96.01% are achieved in the detection of Proliferative diabetic retinopathy using CNN and DBN based on the features of data.
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