A Deep Learning Framework for Earlier Prediction of Diabetic Retinopathy from Fundus Photographs.

Journal: BioMed research international
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Abstract

Diabetic patients can also be identified immediately utilizing retinopathy photos, but it is a challenging task. The blood veins visible in fundus photographs are used in several disease diagnosis approaches. We sought to replicate the findings published in implementation and verification of a deep learning approach for diabetic retinopathy identification in retinal fundus pictures. To address this issue, the suggested investigative study uses recurrent neural networks (RNN) to retrieve characteristics from deep networks. As a result, using computational approaches to identify certain disorders automatically might be a fantastic solution. We developed and tested several iterations of a deep learning framework to forecast the progression of diabetic retinopathy in diabetic individuals who have undergone teleretinal diabetic retinopathy assessment in a basic healthcare environment. A collection of one-field or three-field colour fundus pictures served as the input for both iterations. Utilizing the proposed DRNN methodology, advanced identification of the diabetic state was performed utilizing HE detected in an eye's blood vessel. This research demonstrates the difficulties in duplicating deep learning approach findings, as well as the necessity for more reproduction and replication research to verify deep learning techniques, particularly in the field of healthcare picture processing. This development investigates the utilization of several other Deep Neural Network Frameworks on photographs from the dataset after they have been treated to suitable image computation methods such as local average colour subtraction to assist in highlighting the germane characteristics from a fundoscopy, thus, also enhancing the identification and assessment procedure of diabetic retinopathy and serving as a skilled guidelines framework for practitioners all over the globe.

Authors

  • K Gunasekaran
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sri Indu College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana 501510, India.
  • R Pitchai
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, B V Raju Institute of Technology, Narsapur 502313, Telangana, India.
  • Gogineni Krishna Chaitanya
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram, Andhra Pradesh 522502, India.
  • D Selvaraj
    Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Panimalar Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600123, India.
  • S Annie Sheryl
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Panimalar Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600123, India.
  • Hesham S Almoallim
    Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dentistry, King Saud University, PO Box-60169, Riyadh-11545, Saudi Arabia.
  • Sulaiman Ali Alharbi
    Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, PO Box-2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
  • S S Raghavan
    Department of Botany, University of Texas Health and Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, 75703 TX, USA.
  • Belachew Girma Tesemma
    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mizan Tepi University, Ethiopia.