RETINAL BLOOD VESSEL EXTRACTION AND OPTICAL DISC REMOVAL

R.Sai Prakash, R.Aditya, Y.Sameer, S.Parameswari, G.Santhi Kumari

Abstract: Retinal image processing is an important process by which we can detect the blood vessels and this helps us in detecting the DIABETIC RETINOPATHY at a early stage and this is very helpful because the symptoms are not known by anyone unless we have blur eye sight or we get blind. And this mainly occurs in people suffering from high diabetes. So by extracting the blood vessels using the algorithm we can see which blood vessels are actually damaged. So by using the algorithm we can continuously survey the situation and can protect our eye-sight.

Keywords: field of view, retinopathy, thresholding, morphology, Otsus algorithm, MATLAB.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0404014