Determination of Foveal Avascular Zone in Diabetic Retinopathy Digital Fundus Images

Monitoring FAZ area enlargement enables physicians to monitor progression of the DR. At present, it is difficult to discern the FAZ area and to measure its enlargement in an objective manner using digital fundus images. A semi-automated approach for determination of FAZ using color images has been d...

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Main Authors: Lila Izhar, Iznita, Ahmad Fadzil, M Hani, Nugroho, Hanung Adi
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier BV 2010
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author Lila Izhar, Iznita
Ahmad Fadzil, M Hani
Nugroho, Hanung Adi
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description Monitoring FAZ area enlargement enables physicians to monitor progression of the DR. At present, it is difficult to discern the FAZ area and to measure its enlargement in an objective manner using digital fundus images. A semi-automated approach for determination of FAZ using color images has been developed. Here, a binary map of retinal blood vessels is computer generated from the digital fundus image to determine vessel ends and pathologies surrounding FAZ for area analysis. The proposed method is found to achieve accuracies from 66.67% to 98.69% compared to accuracies of 18.13% - 95 .07% obtained by manual segmentation of FAZ regions from digital fundus images.
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spelling oai:scholars.utp.edu.my:31782017-01-19T08:23:55Z http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/3178/ Determination of Foveal Avascular Zone in Diabetic Retinopathy Digital Fundus Images Lila Izhar, Iznita Ahmad Fadzil, M Hani Nugroho, Hanung Adi RE Ophthalmology TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Monitoring FAZ area enlargement enables physicians to monitor progression of the DR. At present, it is difficult to discern the FAZ area and to measure its enlargement in an objective manner using digital fundus images. A semi-automated approach for determination of FAZ using color images has been developed. Here, a binary map of retinal blood vessels is computer generated from the digital fundus image to determine vessel ends and pathologies surrounding FAZ for area analysis. The proposed method is found to achieve accuracies from 66.67% to 98.69% compared to accuracies of 18.13% - 95 .07% obtained by manual segmentation of FAZ regions from digital fundus images. Elsevier BV 2010-07 Citation Index Journal PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/3178/1/Original_research_article_%28CBM%29_Manuscript-new1.pdf Lila Izhar, Iznita and Ahmad Fadzil, M Hani and Nugroho, Hanung Adi (2010) Determination of Foveal Avascular Zone in Diabetic Retinopathy Digital Fundus Images. [Citation Index Journal] http://www.elsevier.com/ 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2010.05.004 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2010.05.004 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2010.05.004
spellingShingle RE Ophthalmology
TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Lila Izhar, Iznita
Ahmad Fadzil, M Hani
Nugroho, Hanung Adi
Determination of Foveal Avascular Zone in Diabetic Retinopathy Digital Fundus Images
title Determination of Foveal Avascular Zone in Diabetic Retinopathy Digital Fundus Images
title_full Determination of Foveal Avascular Zone in Diabetic Retinopathy Digital Fundus Images
title_fullStr Determination of Foveal Avascular Zone in Diabetic Retinopathy Digital Fundus Images
title_full_unstemmed Determination of Foveal Avascular Zone in Diabetic Retinopathy Digital Fundus Images
title_short Determination of Foveal Avascular Zone in Diabetic Retinopathy Digital Fundus Images
title_sort determination of foveal avascular zone in diabetic retinopathy digital fundus images
topic RE Ophthalmology
TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
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