A complementary method for automated detection of microaneurysms in fluorescein angiography fundus images to assess diabetic retinopathy

Tavakoli, Meysam; Shahri, Reza Pourreza; Pourreza, Hamidreza; Mehdizadeh, Alireza; Banaee, Touka; Toosi, Mohammad Hosein Bahreini

doi:10.1016/j.patcog.2013.03.011

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“…According to the National Screening Committee standards all the images are captured by using a TOPCON (TRC-50EX), 50 Mydriatic retinal camera. The acquired image resolution is 2896 × 1944 TIFF format [34], [35]. The second database, DRIVE, consisting of 40 images with image resolution of 768 × 584 pixels in which 33 cases did not have any sign of DR and 7 ones showed signs of early or mild DR with a 45 FOV.…”

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Automated Fovea Detection Based on Unsupervised Retinal Vessel Segmentation Method

Tavakoli

Kelley

Nazar

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC)

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The Computer Assisted Diagnosis systems could save workloads and give objective diagnostic to ophthalmologists. At first level of automated screening of systems feature extraction is the fundamental step. One of these retinal features is the fovea. The fovea is a small fossa on the fundus, which is represented by a deep-red or red-brown color in color retinal images. By observing retinal images, it appears that the main vessels diverge from the optic nerve head and follow a specific course that can be geometrically modeled as a parabola, with a common vertex inside the optic nerve head and the fovea located along the apex of this parabola curve. Therefore, based on this assumption, the main retinal blood vessels are segmented and fitted to a parabolic model. With respect to the core vascular structure, we can thus detect fovea in the fundus images. For the vessel segmentation, our algorithm addresses the image locally where homogeneity of features is more likely to occur. The algorithm is composed of 4 steps: multi-overlapping windows, local Radon transform, vessel validation, and parabolic fitting. In order to extract blood vessels, sub-vessels should be extracted in local windows. The high contrast between blood vessels and image background in the images cause the vessels to be associated with peaks in the Radon space. The largest vessels, using a high threshold of the Radon transform, determines the main course or overall configuration of the blood vessels which when fitted to a parabola, leads to the future localization of the fovea. In effect, with an accurate fit, the fovea normally lies along the slope joining the vertex and the focus. The darkest region along this line is the indicative of the fovea. To evaluate our method, we used 220 fundus images from a rural databse (MUMS-DB) and one public one (DRIVE). The results show that, among 20 images of the first public database (DRIVE) we detected fovea in 85% of them. Also for the MUMS-DB database among 200 images we detect fovea correctly in 83% on them.

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Automated Fovea Detection Based on Unsupervised Retinal Vessel Segmentation Method

Tavakoli

Kelley

Nazar

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2017 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC)

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“…Results showed that this approach is competitive with selection-based ensemble approaches and outperforms other individual detectors. Tavakoli et al [26] presented a different algorithm for MA detection in FAs based on Radon transform (RT) and multi-overlapping windows. At the first step, the optic nerve head (ONH) was detected and masked.…”

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“…The projection of a two dimensional region onto a rotated axis with respect to the original axis is a line integral evaluated along the direction of rotated axis . The Radon Transform of is the line integral of parallel to the axis and perpendicular to the axis with the last axis having an angle with respect to axis [26], .…”

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A method to assist in the diagnosis of early diabetic retinopathy: Image processing applied to detection of microaneurysms in fundus images

Rosas-Romero

Martı́nez-Carballido

Hernández-Capistrán

et al. 2015

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

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“…2,8 One of the most important steps in the automated screening of DR is the detection of microaneurysms (MAs) . 9 MAs are small outpouchings in capillary vessels. 10 They are amongst the first signs of the DR. 11 Detection of MAs is the main step in the automated detection of DR screening systems.…”

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Comparison different vessel segmentation methods in automated microaneurysms detection in retinal images using convolutional neural networks

Tavakoli¹,

Nazar²

2020

Medical Imaging 2020: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging

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Image processing techniques provide important assistance to physicians and relieve their workload in different tasks. In particular, identifying objects of interest such as lesions and anatomical structures from the image is a challenging and iterative process that can be done by computerized approaches in a successful manner. Microaneurysms (MAs) detection is a crucial step in retinal image analysis algorithms. The goal of MAs detection is to find the progress and at last identification of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in the retinal images. The objective of this study is to apply three retinal vessel segmentation methods, Laplacian-of-Gaussian (LoG), Canny edge detector, and Matched filter to compare results of MAs detection using combination of unsupervised and supervised learning either in the normal images or in the presence of DR. The steps for the algorithm are as following: 1) Preprocessing and Enhancement, 2) vessel segmentation and masking, 3) MAs detection and Localization using combination of Matching based approach and Convolutional Neural Networks. To evaluate the accuracy of our proposed method, we compared the output of our method with the ground truth that collected by ophthalmologists. By using the LoG vessel segmentation, our algorithm found sensitivity of more than 85% in detection of MAs for 100 color images in a local retinal database and 40 images of a public dataset (DRIVE). For the Canny vessel segmentation, our automated algorithm found sensitivity of more than 80% in detection of MAs for all 140 images of two databases. And lastly, using Matched filter, our algorithm found sensitivity of more than 87% in detection of MAs in both local and DRIVE datasets. arXiv:2005.09097v1 [physics.med-ph] 18 Apr 2020

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A complementary method for automated detection of microaneurysms in fluorescein angiography fundus images to assess diabetic retinopathy

Cited by 66 publications

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Automated Fovea Detection Based on Unsupervised Retinal Vessel Segmentation Method

Automated Fovea Detection Based on Unsupervised Retinal Vessel Segmentation Method

A method to assist in the diagnosis of early diabetic retinopathy: Image processing applied to detection of microaneurysms in fundus images

Comparison different vessel segmentation methods in automated microaneurysms detection in retinal images using convolutional neural networks

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