Research Article
Review on the Role of Macular Edema in Retinopathy, Blindness and Automated Diagnosis Methods
@ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.17-3-2021.169034, author={M. J. Barman and D. Deb and M. K. Hassan and B. Choudhury}, title={Review on the Role of Macular Edema in Retinopathy, Blindness and Automated Diagnosis Methods}, journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Pervasive Health and Technology}, volume={7}, number={27}, publisher={EAI}, journal_a={PHAT}, year={2021}, month={3}, keywords={Macula, Retinal Abnormality, Macular Edema, Cystoid Macular Edema, Blindness, Computer aided diagnosis}, doi={10.4108/eai.17-3-2021.169034} }- M. J. Barman
D. Deb
M. K. Hassan
B. Choudhury
Year: 2021
Review on the Role of Macular Edema in Retinopathy, Blindness and Automated Diagnosis Methods
PHAT
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.17-3-2021.169034
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Macular edema is not a disease itself, but, a very common condition in most of the retinal diseases, such as diabetic retinopathy, retinal vein occlusion, hypertensive retinopathy, age-related macular edema, etc. and post-ocular surgery.
OBJECTIVES: We have discussed how macular edema plays an important role in blindness in case of various retinal blood vascular diseases and post-ophthalmic surgery. We have analyzed vast state-of-the-art methods for retinal abnormality detection.
METHODS: The proposed method uses a semi-automated macula segmentation approach and Local Binary Pattern features to train k-Nearest Neighbor classifier and performs binary classification.
RESULTS: We have achieved 80% accuracy and 90% sensitivity in classifying normal and abnormal retina.
CONCLUSION: We justified the notion that it will be beneficial to have a method that can analyse the macula region and alert if there is any abnormality near that region to prevent vision loss.
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