Automatic multiresolution age-related macular degeneration detection from fundus images

Mickaël Garnier; Thomas Hurtut; Houssem Ben Tahar; Farida Cheriet

doi:10.1117/12.2043099

18 March 2014 Automatic multiresolution age-related macular degeneration detection from fundus images

Mickaël Garnier, Thomas Hurtut, Houssem Ben Tahar, Farida Cheriet

Proceedings Volume 9035, Medical Imaging 2014: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 903532 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043099
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of legal blindness. As the disease progress, visual loss occurs rapidly, therefore early diagnosis is required for timely treatment. Automatic, fast and robust screening of this widespread disease should allow an early detection. Most of the automatic diagnosis methods in the literature are based on a complex segmentation of the drusen, targeting a specific symptom of the disease. In this paper, we present a preliminary study for AMD detection from color fundus photographs using a multiresolution texture analysis. We analyze the texture at several scales by using a wavelet decomposition in order to identify all the relevant texture patterns. Textural information is captured using both the sign and magnitude components of the completed model of Local Binary Patterns. An image is finally described with the textural pattern distributions of the wavelet coefficient images obtained at each level of decomposition. We use a Linear Discriminant Analysis for feature dimension reduction, to avoid the curse of dimensionality problem, and image classification. Experiments were conducted on a dataset containing 45 images (23 healthy and 22 diseased) of variable quality and captured by different cameras. Our method achieved a recognition rate of 93:3%, with a specificity of 95:5% and a sensitivity of 91:3%. This approach shows promising results at low costs that in agreement with medical experts as well as robustness to both image quality and fundus camera model.

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Mickaël Garnier, Thomas Hurtut, Houssem Ben Tahar, and Farida Cheriet "Automatic multiresolution age-related macular degeneration detection from fundus images", Proc. SPIE 9035, Medical Imaging 2014: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 903532 (18 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043099

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