A Novel Approach for Diagnosis of Glaucoma through Optic Nerve Head (ONH) Analysis using Fractal Dimension Technique

According to the survey of World Health Organization (WHO), the number of people getting affected by glaucoma eye disease in worldwide will be 79.11 million by the year 2020. Glaucoma is a dangerous eye disease, which can lead to permanent vision loss if not provided proper treatment at the right time. Currently ophthalmologists detect the glaucoma disease based on estimation of cup to disk ratio, but this method suffers from accurate segmentation of regions like optic disk and optic cup. However, this introduces errors in the diagnosis. Therefore in this paper, Hausdrop Fractal Dimension (HFD) technique is adopted for identification of the glaucoma eye disease. Here, Optic disk perimeter parameter is used in HFD technique for classification of healthy or glaucomatous retinas. Average fractal dimension is calculated for a set of healthy optic disks and the fractal dimension is found to be 0.998, whereas for glaucomatous optic disks obtained average fractal dimension value 1.342.

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