Abstract

Diabetic Retina (DR), a problem of formation of blood clot must be diagnosed at an early stage for laser therapy. A number of automated diagnosis methods based on image segmentation of fundus image is present which can diagnose DR at late mild proliferative stage. Proposed work is aimed to detect DR at early mild proliferative stage. Method uses feature extraction of fundus image using 2D Gabor filtering and pre-classification for feature vector extraction using Pades approximation. The Padesvector are then again classified using SVM by forming a dual of convex quadratic type minimization problem for linearly separable hyper plane. The performance of the proposed work is tested with set of images taken from fundus camera.

Keywords:

Diabetic Retina (DR), lagrangians multiplier, pades approximation, Support Vector Machines (SVM),

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