Title:	A ROBUST, HIGH ACCURACY AND FAST NEW METHODOLOGY TO LOCATE THE OPTIC DISC FROM COLOUR RETINAL IMAGES
Author(s):	Arturo Aquino Martín , Manuel E. Gegúndez Árias , Diego Marín Santos , José M. Andújar Márquez
ISBN:	978-972-8924-84-3
Editors:	Yingcai Xiao, Tomaz Amon and Piet Kommers
Year:	2009
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Diabetic Retinopathy, early diagnosis, expert system, optic disc detection
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	99
Last Page:	105
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a chronic disease that represents a huge health trouble for the population and the Health Systems. The early diagnosis of this illness, during its asymptomatic stage, is of vital importance to avoid the progression to blindness. The project Expert System for Early Automated Detection of DR by Analysis of Digital Retinal Images (http://www.uhu.es/retinopathy), supported by the Health Ministry of the Andalusian Regional Government (Spain), has the aim of developing a system, that could be used by non-experts, to discriminate between those patients who require referral to an ophthalmologist for further investigation and treatment and those who do not present any DR sign, dynamizing in this way the early detection of the disease. Within this framework, a new automated methodology to locate the optic disc from digital color images of the retina is presented in this paper. The robustness, high accuracy, as well as the low computational time achieved make the methodology suitable for use as part of the system under development.
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