Classification of Retinal Image for Early Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy Using Deep Learning

Abstract

Diabetic retinopathy is a disease which cause of blindness due to diabetes. For this reason, it is very important to detect diabetic retinopathy in early stages. A deep learning-based approach is used for the early detection of diabetic retinopathy from retinal images. The proposed approach consists of two steps. In the first stage, pre treatments were performed to remove retinal images from different data sets and standardize them to size. In the second stage, classification is done by the help of Convolutional Neural Network using deep learning algorithm and 98.5% success is achieved. The difference of this technique from similar studies is that instead of creating the feature set manually as in traditional methods, the deep learning network automatically constructs and trained by using CPU and GPU in a very short time. Keywords: CNN, Early detection, Artificial intelligence, Deep learning, Machine-learning, Fundus Image, Optical coherence tomography, Ophthalmology.