Classification of Cotton Wool Spots Using Principal Components Analysis and Support Vector Machine

dc.contributor.authorSreng, Syna
dc.contributor.authorManeerat, Noppadol
dc.contributor.authorWin, Khin Yadanar
dc.contributor.authorHamamoto, Kazuhiko
dc.contributor.authorPanjaphongse, Ronakorn
dc.date.accessioned2026-08-06T10:23:55Z
dc.date.available2026-08-06T10:23:55Z
dc.date.issued2019-01-10
dc.description.abstractDiabetic retinopathy is a complication of the eye damage and can lead to being blindness if it is late for treatment. Microaneurysms, exudates, hemorrhages and cotton wool spots are the lesions associated with diabetic retinopathy. Numerous studies have been done on the detection of microaneurysms, and hemorrhages, as well as exudates whereas only a few research works for detection of cotton wool spots, mainly because of the fact that its appearances are difficult to filter out from the background and not clearly visible. In this paper, an algorithm is proposed to detect cotton wool spots based on integrating principal components analysis and support vector machine. First, preprocessing is performed to enhance the retinal images. Then adaptive thresholding method is used to roughly extract the cotton wool spot from the background. Support vector machine and principal components analysis are further applied respectively to select the important features from morphologies, first-order statistics, gray level occurrence matrix and lacunarity. The proposed method was evaluated with local and DIARETDB1 datasets containing 289 images. Given a success rate of accuracy 90.47 %, sensitivity 85.29%, and specificity 90.12% with the average computational time 16.47 seconds per image on cotton wool spots detection, this system performed better by comparing to the previous research works.
dc.identifier.citationBmeicon 2018 11th Biomedical Engineering International Conference, 2019
dc.identifier.doi10.1109/BMEiCON.2018.8609962
dc.identifier.other2-s2.0-85062075267
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.kmitl.ac.th/handle/123456789/9688
dc.sourceBmeicon 2018 11th Biomedical Engineering International Conference
dc.subjectCotton wool spots
dc.subjectDiabetic retinopathy
dc.subjectFundus image
dc.subjectPrincipal component analysis
dc.subjectSupport vector machine
dc.titleClassification of Cotton Wool Spots Using Principal Components Analysis and Support Vector Machine
dc.typeConference Paper

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