Abstract
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a complication of diabetes, which if untreated leads to blindness. DR early diagnosis and treatment improve outcomes. Automated assessment of single lesions associated with DR has been investigated for sometime. To improve on classification, especially across different ethnic groups, we present an approach using points-of-interest and visual dictionary that contains important features required to identify retinal pathology. Variation in images of the human retina with respect to differences in pigmentation and presence of diverse lesions can be analyzed without the necessity of preprocessing and utilizing different training sets to account for ethnic differences for instance.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2011 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) |
Place of Publication | United States |
Publisher | IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
Pages | 5951-5954 |
Number of pages | 4 |
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Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Event | 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Boston, United States Duration: 30 Aug 2011 → 03 Sept 2011 |
Conference
Conference | 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Boston |
Period | 30/08/11 → 03/09/11 |
Other | The annual conference of EMBS averages 2000 attendees from over 50 countries. The scope of the conference is general in nature to focus on the interdisciplinary fields of biomedical engineering. Themes included but not limited to are: Imaging, Biosignals, Biorobotics, Bioinstrumentation, Neural, Rehabilitation, Bioinformatics, Healthcare IT, Medical Devices, etc. |