Rapid development in the field of ophthalmology has increased the demand of computer aided diagnosis of various eye diseases. Papilledema is an eye disease in which the optic disc of the eye is swelled due to an increase in intracranial pressure. This increased pressure can cause severe encephalic complications like abscess, tumors, meningitis or encephalitis, which may lead to a patient's death. Although there have been several papilledema case studies reported from a medical point of view, only a few researchers have presented automated algorithms for this problem. This paper presents a novel computer aided system which aims to automatically detect papilledema from fundus images. Firstly, the fundus images are preprocessed by going through optic disc detection and vessel segmentation. After preprocessing, a total of 26 different features are extracted to capture possible changes in the optic disc due to papilledema. These features are further divided into four categories based upon their color, textural, vascular and disc margin obscuration properties. The best features are then selected and combined to form a feature matrix that is used to distinguish between normal images and images with papilledema using the supervised support vector machine (SVM) classifier. The proposed method is tested on 160 fundus images obtained from two different data sets i.e. structured analysis of retina (STARE), which is a publicly available data set, and our local data set that has been acquired from the Armed Forces Institute of Ophthalmology (AFIO). The STARE data set contained 90 and our local data set contained 70 fundus images respectively. These annotations have been performed with the help of two ophthalmologists. We report detection accuracies of 95.6% for STARE, 87.4% for the local data set, and 85.9% for the combined STARE and local data sets. The proposed system is fast and robust in detecting papilledema from fundus images with promising results. This will aid physicians in clinical assessment of fundus images. It will not take away the role of physicians, but will rather help them in the time consuming process of screening fundus images.
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