NDC-IVM: An automatic segmentation of optic disc and cup region from medical images for glaucoma detection

Glaucoma is an eye disease that usually occurs with the increased Intra-Ocular Pressure (IOP), which damages the vision of eyes. So, detecting and classifying Glaucoma is an important and demanding task in recent days. For this purpose, some of the clustering and segmentation techniques are proposed in the existing works. But, it has some drawbacks that include inefficient, inaccurate and estimates only the affected area. In order to solve these issues, a Neighboring Differential Clustering (NDC) — Intensity Variation Masking (IVM) are proposed in this paper. The main intention of this work is to extract and diagnose the abnormal retinal image by identifying the optic disc. This work includes three stages such as, preprocessing, clustering and segmentation. At first, the given retinal image is preprocessed by using the Gaussian Mask Updated (GMU) model for eliminating the noise and improving the quality of the image. Then, the cluster is formed by extracting the threshold and patterns with the help of NDC...

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