DIAGNOSIS OF DIABETIC RETINOPATHY USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES

ICTACT Journal on Soft Computing ( Volume: 3 , Issue: 4 )

Abstract

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Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is an eye disease caused by the complication of diabetes and we should detect it early for effective treatment. As diabetes progresses, the vision of a patient may start to deteriorate and lead to diabetic retinopathy. As a result, two groups were identified, namely non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) and proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR). In this paper, to diagnose diabetic retinopathy, three models like Probabilistic Neural network (PNN), Bayesian Classification and Support vector machine (SVM) are described and their performances are compared. The amount of the disease spread in the retina can be identified by extracting the features of the retina. The features like blood vessels, haemmoraghes of NPDR image and exudates of PDR image are extracted from the raw images using the image processing techniques and fed to the classifier for classification. A total of 350 fundus images were used, out of which 100 were used for training and 250 images were used for testing. Experimental results show that PNN has an accuracy of 89.6 % Bayes Classifier has an accuracy of 94.4% and SVM has an accuracy of 97.6%. This infers that the SVM model outperforms all other models. Also our system is also run on 130 images available from “DIARETDB0: Evaluation Database and Methodology for Diabetic Retinopathy” and the results show that PNN has an accuracy of 87.69% Bayes Classifier has an accuracy of 90.76% and SVM has an accuracy of 95.38%.

Authors

R. Priya, P. Aruna
Annamalai University, India

Keywords

Probabilistic Neural Network, Bayesian Classification, Support Vector Machine, Sensitivity, Specificity, Accuracy

Published By
ICTACT
Published In
ICTACT Journal on Soft Computing
( Volume: 3 , Issue: 4 )
Date of Publication
July 2013
Pages
563-575

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