Retinal Image Analysis Using Morphological Process and Clustering Technique

This paper proposes a method for the Retinal image analysis through efficient detection of exudates and recognizes the retina to be normal or abnormal. The contrast image is enhanced by curvelet transform. Hence, morphology operators are applied to the enhanced image in order to find the retinal image ridges. A simple thresholding method along with opening and closing operation indicates the remained ridges belonging to vessels. The clustering method is used for effective detection of exudates of eye. Experimental result proves that the blood vessels and exudates can be effectively detected by applying this method on the retinal images. Fundus images of the retina were collected from a reputed eye clinic and 110 images were trained and tested in order to extract the exudates and blood vessels. In this system we use the Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) for training and testing the pre-processed images. The results showed the retina is normal or abnormal thereby analyzing the retinal image efficiently. There is 98% accuracy in the detection of the exudates in the retina .

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