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ArticleComputational intelligence and neuroscience2021

Presentation of a Segmentation Method for a Diabetic Retinopathy Patient's Fundus Region Detection Using a Convolutional Neural Network.

Amin Valizadeh, Saeid Jafarzadeh Ghoushchi, Ramin Ranjbarzadeh, Yaghoub Pourasad

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Article in Computational intelligence and neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Amin ValizadehDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7910-718X
Saeid Jafarzadeh GhoushchiDepartment of Industrial Engineering, Urmia University of Technology (UUT), P.O. Box 57166-419, Urmia, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3665-9010
Ramin RanjbarzadehDepartment of Telecommunications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7065-9060
Yaghoub PourasadDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Urmia University of Technology (UUT), P.O. Box 57166-419, Urmia, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1487-1651
Urmia University of Technology · IRFerdowsi University of Mashhad · IRUniversity of Guilan · IR

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Abstract

Diabetic retinopathy is characteristic of a local distribution that involves early-stage risk factors and can forecast the evolution of the illness or morphological lesions related to the abnormality of retinal blood flows. Regional variations in retinal blood flow and modulation of retinal capillary width in the macular area and the retinal environment are also linked to the course of diabetic retinopathy. Despite the fact that diabetic retinopathy is frequent nowadays, it is hard to avoid. An ophthalmologist generally determines the seriousness of the retinopathy of the eye by directly examining color photos and evaluating them by visually inspecting the fundus. It is an expensive process because of the vast number of diabetic patients around the globe. We used the IDRiD data set that contains both typical diabetic retinopathic lesions and normal retinal structures. We provided a CNN architecture for the detection of the target region of 80 patients' fundus imagery. Results demonstrate that the approach described here can nearly detect 83.84% of target locations. This result can potentially be utilized to monitor and regulate patients.

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Diabetes MellitusDiabetic RetinopathyFundus OculiHumansNeural Networks, ComputerRetina

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