OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence and relationship of retinopathy lesions in older subjects without diabetes to systemic hypertension. METHODS Three thousand six hundred fifty-four people aged 49 years or older attending the Blue Mountains Eye Study underwent a detailed eye examination, including medical history, blood pressure measurement, and fasting blood collection. Retinopathy lesions (...

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This paper presents a new approach to the computer aided diagnosis (CAD) of diabetic retinopathy (DR)—a common and severe complication of long-term diabetes which damages the retina and cause blindness. Since microaneurysms are regarded as the first signs of DR, there has been extensive research on effective detection and localization of these abnormalities in retinal images. In contrast to exi...

This paper addresses the automatic detection of microaneurysms in color fundus images, which plays a key role in computer assisted diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy, a serious and frequent eye disease. The algorithm can be divided into four steps. The first step consists in image enhancement, shade correction and image normalization of the green channel. The second step aims at detecting candid...

This paper introduces, and reports on the performance of, a novel combination of algorithms for automated microaneurysm (MA) detection in retinal images. The presence of MAs in retinal images is a pathognomonic sign of Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) which is one of the leading causes of blindness amongst the working age population. An extensive survey of the literature is presented and current techn...