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Main Authors: Karkera, Tejas, Adak, Chandranath, Chattopadhyay, Soumi, Saqib, Muhammad
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Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00973
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author Karkera, Tejas
Adak, Chandranath
Chattopadhyay, Soumi
Saqib, Muhammad
author_facet Karkera, Tejas
Adak, Chandranath
Chattopadhyay, Soumi
Saqib, Muhammad
contents Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is considered one of the significant concerns worldwide, primarily due to its impact on causing vision loss among most people with diabetes. The severity of DR is typically comprehended manually by ophthalmologists from fundus photography-based retina images. This paper deals with an automated understanding of the severity stages of DR. In the literature, researchers have focused on this automation using traditional machine learning-based algorithms and convolutional architectures. However, the past works hardly focused on essential parts of the retinal image to improve the model performance. In this study, we adopt and fine-tune transformer-based learning models to capture the crucial features of retinal images for a more nuanced understanding of DR severity. Additionally, we explore the effectiveness of image transformers to infer the degree of DR severity from fundus photographs. For experiments, we utilized the publicly available APTOS-2019 blindness detection dataset, where the performances of the transformer-based models were quite encouraging.
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spellingShingle Detecting Severity of Diabetic Retinopathy from Fundus Images: A Transformer Network-based Review
Karkera, Tejas
Adak, Chandranath
Chattopadhyay, Soumi
Saqib, Muhammad
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is considered one of the significant concerns worldwide, primarily due to its impact on causing vision loss among most people with diabetes. The severity of DR is typically comprehended manually by ophthalmologists from fundus photography-based retina images. This paper deals with an automated understanding of the severity stages of DR. In the literature, researchers have focused on this automation using traditional machine learning-based algorithms and convolutional architectures. However, the past works hardly focused on essential parts of the retinal image to improve the model performance. In this study, we adopt and fine-tune transformer-based learning models to capture the crucial features of retinal images for a more nuanced understanding of DR severity. Additionally, we explore the effectiveness of image transformers to infer the degree of DR severity from fundus photographs. For experiments, we utilized the publicly available APTOS-2019 blindness detection dataset, where the performances of the transformer-based models were quite encouraging.
title Detecting Severity of Diabetic Retinopathy from Fundus Images: A Transformer Network-based Review
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00973