Abstract:Proliferative diabetic retinopathy is the advanced stage of diabetic retinopathy (DR) resulting in the growth of abnormal vessels on the retinal surface termed as neovascularization. This article primarily deals with the timely detection and classification of retinal images into healthy, neovascularization on optic disc, and elsewhere using an extreme learning machine (ELM) classifier. Initially, a binary mask is employed to enhance the foreground pixels. The resultant image is processed for the extraction of … Show more
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