Document Type
Article (Restricted)
Publication Date
1-1-2012
Abstract
This paper presents a new approach to detect exudates and optic disc from color fundus images based on inverse surface thresholding. The strategy involves the applications of fuzzy c-means clustering, edge detection, otsu thresholding and inverse surface thresholding. The main advantage of the proposed approach is that it does not depend on manually selected parameters that are normally chosen to suit the tested databases. When applied to two sets of databases the proposed method outperforms a method based on watershed segmentation.
Keywords
Diabetic retinopathy, Exudates, Biomedical applications, Inverse surface thresholding
Divisions
fac_eng
Publication Title
Journal of Medical Systems
Volume
36
Publisher
Springer Verlag
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