Diabetic retinopathy is a progressive eye disease and one of the leading causes of blindness all over the world. New blood vessels (neovascularization) start growing at advance stage of diabetic retinopathy known as proliferative diabetic retinopathy. Early and accurate detection of proliferative diabetic retinopathy is very important and crucial for protection of patient's vision. Automated sy...

Detecting blood vessels is a vital task in retinal image analysis. The task is more challenging with the presence of bright and dark lesions in retinal images. Here, a method is proposed to detect vessels in both normal and abnormal retinal fundus images based on their linear features. First, the negative impact of bright lesions is reduced by using K-means segmentation in a perceptive space. T...

Segmentation of blood vessels in retinal images allows early diagnosis of disease; automating this process provides several benefits including minimizing subjectivity and eliminating a painstaking, tedious task. Previous approaches, while satisfactory in some cases, still leave room for improvement, especially in abnormal retinal images. We propose to utilize a tracking based algorithm based on...

Diabetic-related eye disease is the most common cause of blindness worldwide. The most effective treatment is early detection through regular screenings. This produces a large number of retinal photographs for the medical doctors to review. In our work, we employ a combination of innovative image processing and data mining techniques to automate the preliminary analysis and diagnosis of diabeti...

This paper proposes a method for the Retinal image analysis through efficient detection of exudates and recognizes the retina to be normal or abnormal. The contrast image is enhanced by curvelet transform. Hence, morphology operators are applied to the enhanced image in order to find the retinal image ridges. A simple thresholding method along with opening and closing operation indicates the re...

Diabetes mellitus, a metabolic disorder, has become one of the rapidly increasing health threats both in India and worldwide. The complication of the diabetes associated to retina of the eye is diabetic retinopathy. A patient with the disease has to undergo periodic screening of eye. For the diagnosis, ophthalmologists use color retinal images of a patient acquired from digital fundus camera. T...

Diabetic retinopathy is one of the serious eye diseases that can cause blindness and vision loss. Diabetes mellitus, a metabolic disorder, has become one of the rapidly increasing health threats both in India and worldwide. The complication of the diabetes associated to retina of the eye is diabetic retinopathy. A patient with the disease has to undergo periodic screening of eye. For the diagno...

Experimental retinal venous obstruction was produced in rabbit eyes by transadventitial instillation of thrombin for the purpose of studying the late stage of histopathological changes in the retina. Three months after the instillation, abnormal vessels and compensatory shunt vessels were observed by ophthalmoscopy. Capillary obstruction, blood leakage from venules and neovascularization were o...

To examine the retinal vascular findings on widefield fluorescein angiography (FA) in fellow eyes of patients with unilateral persistent fetal vasculature (PFV). Retrospective case series. Consecutive PFV evaluated by a single physician at an academic medical center from February 1, 2011, to November 30, 2018. Clinical and demographic information, including age, gender, race, ethnicity, affecte...