Publication detail

Automatic glaucoma detection using adaptive threshold based technique in fundus image

AGARWAL, A. GULIA, S. CHAUDHARY, S. DUTTA, M. BURGET, R. ŘÍHA, K.

Original Title

Automatic glaucoma detection using adaptive threshold based technique in fundus image

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Glaucoma is a kind of ocular disorder that results in a damaged optic nerve which is responsible for transmitting images to the brain. The conventional methods to detect glaucoma like Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and Heidelberg Retinal Tomography (HRT) are expensive and need specialized manpower. A digital fundus image can be used to identify glaucoma. This paper describes an efficient method to analyze a computer-aided fundus image which can act as a diagnostic tool for detection of glaucoma. A technique based on histogram of the image is used to study some statistical features of the image such as mean and standard deviation. A relationship between them is established to find a threshold value for segmenting optic disc and optic cup. An adaptive threshold based method which is independent of image quality and invariant to noise is used to segment the optic disc, optic cup and the cup-to-disc ratio CDR which is used to screen glaucoma. The experimental results obtained are compared with those of the ophthalmologist and are found to have a high accuracy. Also in addition the proposed method is efficient having a low computational cost.

Keywords

Glaucoma; histogram; Medical imaging; optical cup to disc ratio; Threshold based segmentation

Authors

AGARWAL, A.; GULIA, S.; CHAUDHARY, S.; DUTTA, M.; BURGET, R.; ŘÍHA, K.

RIV year

2015

Released

9. 7. 2015

ISBN

978-1-4799-8498-5

Book

38th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP)

Pages from

416

Pages to

420

Pages count

5

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT117982,
  author="Ayushi {Agarwal} and Shradha {Gulia} and Somal {Chaudhary} and Malay Kishore {Dutta} and Radim {Burget} and Kamil {Říha}",
  title="Automatic glaucoma detection using adaptive threshold based technique in fundus image",
  booktitle="38th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP)",
  year="2015",
  pages="416--420",
  doi="10.1109/TSP.2015.7296295",
  isbn="978-1-4799-8498-5"
}