Automatic Screening and Grading of Age-Related Macular Degeneration from Texture Analysis of Fundus Images

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a disease which causes visual deficiency and irreversible blindness to the elderly. In this paper, an automatic classification method for AMD is proposed to perform robust and reproducible assessments in a telemedicine context. First, a study was carried out...

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Published in:Journal of Ophthalmology 2016-01, Vol.2016 (2016), p.1-11-168
Main Authors: Cheriet, Farida, Chakor, Hadi, Seoud, Lama, Phan, Thanh Vân
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age
Care and treatment
Classification
Diabetic retinopathy
Diagnosis
Macular degeneration
Medical screening
Methods
Physiological aspects
Quality
Retina
Telemedicine
Wavelet transforms
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Summary:Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a disease which causes visual deficiency and irreversible blindness to the elderly. In this paper, an automatic classification method for AMD is proposed to perform robust and reproducible assessments in a telemedicine context. First, a study was carried out to highlight the most relevant features for AMD characterization based on texture, color, and visual context in fundus images. A support vector machine and a random forest were used to classify images according to the different AMD stages following the AREDS protocol and to evaluate the features’ relevance. Experiments were conducted on a database of 279 fundus images coming from a telemedicine platform. The results demonstrate that local binary patterns in multiresolution are the most relevant for AMD classification, regardless of the classifier used. Depending on the classification task, our method achieves promising performances with areas under the ROC curve between 0.739 and 0.874 for screening and between 0.469 and 0.685 for grading. Moreover, the proposed automatic AMD classification system is robust with respect to image quality.
ISSN:2090-004X
2090-0058
DOI:10.1155/2016/5893601