Diabetic Retinopathy Diagnosis in Retinal Images Using Hopfield Neural Network

ABSTRACT

The main objective of this work is to develop an artificial neural network (ANN) for automated detection of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in retinal images. Three hundred and thirty images from DR category and two hundred and ten images from normal category are used in this work. These images are taken from patients with ages in the range of (58.218.7) years who were under treatment at the Lotus Eye Care Hospital, Coimbatore, India. A single-layer Hopfield neural network (HNN) is designed to categorize the normal images and the abnormal DR images. The ANN is trained with 165 images from the abnormal DR category and 105 images from the normal category. The testing images are 165 from DR and 105 from normal category respectively. Specific numerical features obtained from these images are used as inputs for the ANN. The performance measures used for the study are accuracy, sensitivity and specificity. It has been observed that the proposed approach has provided accuracy in the range of 97%–98%. Thus, the experimental results suggest the practical feasibility of the proposed approach. A comparative study with existing works for screening of abnormal retinal images is also reported in this work.

KEYWORDS:

• Hopfield neural network
• Image processing
• Diabetic Retinopathy & Accuracy

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors thank M/s. Lotus Eye Care Hospital, Coimbatore, India for the help regarding database collection and validation.

DISCLOSURE STATEMENT

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Notes on contributors

D. Jude Hemanth

D. Jude Hemanth received his BE degree in electronics and communication from Bharathiar University and his ME degree in communication systems from Anna University. He received his doctoral degree from Karunya University in 2013. Currently, he is working as an associate professor in the Department of ECE of Karunya University, India. He is a member of IEEE SMC TC on soft computing and serves as editorial board member of many reputed International Journals.

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J. Anitha

J. Anitha received her BE degree in ECE from Bharathiar University and ME degree in applied electronics from Anna University. She received her PhD degree from Karunya University in 2013. Currently, she is working as an associate professor in the Department of ECE of Karunya University.

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A. Indumathy

A. Indumathy is a consultant ophthalmologist at Lotus Eye Care Hospital, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

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