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Detection of Diseases Caused by Diabetes in Retinal Images
Zapletal, Michal ; Semerád, Lukáš (referee) ; Kavetskyi, Andrii (advisor)
The goal of this thesis is to design and implement an algorithm for detecting exudates and microaneurysms in colored retinal images. These diseases are the first signs of diabetic retinopathy and early detection is crucial. The proposed algorithm begins with preprocessing, where excess background is removed, contrast is enhanced using CLAHE and histogram stretching, and noise filtering is applied. Optic disc localization is based on iterative background removal and row and column variances. Exudates detection is performed based on gamma correction, thresholding and optic disc removal. Microaneurysm detection is based on morphological operations, hit-or-miss transformation and principal component analysis (PCA). The algorithm was tested on 4 datasets with accuracy 73,1 % for exudates and 73,3 % for microaneurysms. The resulting program could assist in automatic disease detection, which could potentially save time for doctors.
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