A Novel Efficient Approach for the Screening of New Abnormal Blood Vessels in Color Fundus Images

Abstract:

Reliable detection of abnormal vessels in color fundus image is still a great issue in medical image processing. An Efficient and robust approach for automatic detection of abnormal blood vessels in digital color fundus images is presented in this paper. First, the fundus images are preprocessed by applying a 3x3 median filter. Then, the images are segmented using a novel morphological operation. To classify these segmented image into normal and abnormal, seven features based on shape, contrast, position and density are extracted. Finally, these features are classified using a non-linear Support Vector Machine (SVM) Classifier. The average computation time for blood vessel detection was less than 2.4sec with a success rate of 99%. The performance of our proposed method is measured on publically available DRIVE and STARE database.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 573)
• Pages: 808-813
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.573.808
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: B. Ramasubramanian*, S. Selvaperumal
• Keywords: Abnormal Vessels, DM, DR, Median Filter, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Top-Hattransform

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