Diabetic retinopathy (DR), glaucoma and hypertension are eye disease which is harmful and causes pressure in eye nerve and finally blindness. With the invention of new systems and the developing of new technologies the research in the medicine field had a great impulse. In particular, the development of the medical imaging field has been revolutionary with the availability of new techniques to ...

The causes of nonglaucomatous optic disk atrophy and excavation are enumerated in people 65 years or older: congenital anomalies, myopia, ischemic disorders, transsynaptic degeneration, traumatic, compressive, hereditary, toxic and infectious optic neuropathy.

The fovea is a spot located in the center of the macula, and responsible for sharp central vision. In this paper a method to detect the macula location and size is presented, as a first step towards the fovea location. Prior to the macula detection, the optic disk size and position is computed. This is performed through the combination of two stages: firstly, a clustering algorithm is used to s...