Automatic microaneurysms detection through retinal color image analysis

This paper proposes an automatic system to diagnose the diabetic retinopathy symptom, which can cause a loss of vision by analysis the abnormality in retinal image. Digital image processing system is developed for the retinal image analysis which helps ophthalmologists to identify diabetic patients. The retinal images derived from ophthalmologists are used to analysis by using HSV, area identification and eccentricity techniques to distinguish diabetic retinopathy symptoms from normal diabetic patients. First color bar is evaluated by using HSV method and then using the eccentricity technique with area of pixel to find out the abnormality of Microaneurysms (MAs). The accuracy result of experiment is around 93% when compares to the analysis of ophthalmologists. © 2013 IEEE.