An Approach to Evaluate Blurriness in Retinal Images with Vitreous Opacity for Cataract Diagnosis

Journal of Healthcare Engineering - Tập 2017 - Trang 1-16 - 2017
Li Xiong1, Huiqi Li1, Liang Xu2
1School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
2Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing 100730, China

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Cataract is one of the leading causes of blindness in the world’s population. A method to evaluate blurriness for cataract diagnosis in retinal images with vitreous opacity is proposed in this paper. Three types of features are extracted, which include pixel number of visible structures, mean contrast between vessels and background, and local standard deviation. To avoid the wrong detection of vitreous opacity as retinal structures, a morphological method is proposed to detect and remove such lesions from retinal visible structure segmentation. Based on the extracted features, a decision tree is trained to classify retinal images into five grades of blurriness. The proposed approach was tested using 1355 clinical retinal images, and the accuracies of two-class classification and five-grade grading compared with that of manual grading are 92.8% and 81.1%, respectively. The kappa value between automatic grading and manual grading is 0.74 in five-grade grading, in which both variance and P value are less than 0.001. Experimental results show that the grading difference between automatic grading and manual grading is all within 1 grade, which is much improvement compared with that of other available methods. The proposed grading method provides a universal measure of cataract severity and can facilitate the decision of cataract surgery.

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Journal of Healthcare Engineering

Tập 2017

1-16

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