Diagnosis of Retinal Health in Digital Fundus Images Using Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) and Entropies

Vision is paramount to humans to lead an active personal and professional life. The prevalence of ocular diseases is rising, and diseases such as glaucoma, Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) and Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) are the leading causes of blindness in developed countries. Identifying these diseases in mass screening programmes is time-consuming, labor-intensive and the diagnosis can be subjective. The use of an automated computer aided diagnosis system will reduce the time taken for analysis and will also reduce the inter-observer subjective variabilities in image interpretation.

Source: Computers in Biology and Medicine - March 14, 2017 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Joel E.W. Koh, U. Rajendra Acharya, Yuki Hagiwara, U Raghavendra, Jen Hong Tan, S. Vinitha Sree, Sulatha V. Bhandary, A. Krishna Rao, Sobha Sivaprasad, Kuang Chua Chua, Augustinus Laude, Louis Tong Source Type: research