Top-down and bottom-up strategies in lesion detection of background diabetic retinopathy

• Published in: 2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05) Vol. 2; pp. 422 - 428 vol. 2
• Main Authors: Xiaohui Zhang, Chutatape, O.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2005
• Subjects: Biomedical imaging; Blood vessels; Cotton; Diabetes; Hemorrhaging; Lesions; Lighting; Object detection; Retinopathy; Wool

Bright lesions in the form of exudates and cotton wool spots while dark lesions consisting of hemorrhages are main evidences of background diabetic retinopathy that require early detection and precise classification. Based on different properties of bright lesions and dark lesions, bottom-up and top...