Structural Changes -Color Images
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Structural Changes -Color Images
Algorithms for Structural and Functional Change Analysis from Multi-Modal Retinal Fundus ImagesHarihar Narasimha-Iyer1, James M. Beach2 , Ali Can3, Badrinath Roysam1, Charles V. Stewart1, Howard Tanenbaum4
1Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY-121802Institute for Technology Development, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi 39529, USA
3Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA. 4The Center for Sight, 349 Northern Blvd., Albany, New York 12204, USA.
This work was supported in part by CenSSIS, the Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems, under the Engineering Research Centers Program of the National Science Foundation (Award Number EEC-9986821)
Type of Color ChangeType of Color Change SignificanceSignificance
Increase in RedAppearance of bleeding or
microaneurysm
Decrease in RedDisappearance of bleeding or
microaneurysm
Increase in Yellow Appearance of exudate
Decrease in Yellow Disappearance of exudate
Types of Changes in Non-vascular Regions
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6. H. Narasimha-Iyer, J. M. Beach, B. Khoobehi, J. Ning, H. Kawano and B. Roysam, “Algorithms for Automated Oximetry along the Retinal Vascular Tree from Dual-Wavelength Fundus Images,” Accepted for publication, Journal of Biomedical Optics, May 2005.
7. H. Narasimha-Iyer, A. Can, B. Roysam, C.V. Stewart, H.L. Tanenbaum, A. Majerovics and H. Singh, " Robust Detection and Classification of Longitudinal Changes in Color Retinal Fundus Images for Monitoring Diabetic Retinopathy," Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, September 2005.
State of the artOnly a few methods have been described for quantifying the dynamic nature of diabetic retinopathy from a time series of retinal images. Cree et al. [1, 2] detect microaneurysms from a region of interest around the fovea from images at distinct time points and compare them to find changes. Studies of microaneurysm turnover were also made by Goatman et al. [3]. They detected microaneurysms from baseline and follow-up angiograms, registered the images and categorized the microaneurysms into three classes namely, static, new and regressed. Sbeh and Cohen [4] segment drusen based on a morphological method called geodesic reconstruction and study the evolution of drusen over time..All these methods have the limitation that they handle only a certain kind of lesion and also the changes are obtained from individual segmentation of the images. The present work contributes multiple advances over the above literature, overcoming many of the noted limitations. The net result is an algorithm and a systematic non-limiting framework that allows a broad range of longitudinal changes to be detected and classified with a high degree of reliability.
The Framework
Vascular Linking
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Bayesian Change Classifier
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Describing Vascular Changes
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Changes in Nonvascular regions
Changes in Nonvascular regions
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Image Understanding System
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Image Understanding System
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Registration
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Spectral Change Features
Structural/Functional Change Analyzer
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Identification of Vessel Type
Retinal Image Understanding System
Functional Changes-Dual Wavelength Images
Changes in Blood Oxygen Saturation
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Vascular Changes
Change Regions
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outside reflectance