Abstract
Abnormal dilation and tortuosity of retinal blood vessels are the primary signs of plus disease in retinopathy of prematurity. Timely prognosis could help reduce the delay in treatment and the risk of retinal detachment. Our objectives is to determine whether tortuosity and dilation sufficient for plus disease could be assessed most accurately by considering only arterioles, venules, or both. Tortuosity estimation and width measurement is done using previously proposed methods. Image preprocessing is applied before the two features namely, tortuosity and width of blood vessels are estimated to supply as input parameters for classification using K-means clustering technique. The results are validated by comparing with expert ophthalmologists ground truths. Performance is evaluated based on measures as sensitivity, specificity, predictive values and accuracy. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and accuracy values obtained when considering both the arteriolar tortuosity and venous dilation are 85.86%, 90.74%, 88.76%, 88.28% and 88.50% respectively.
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Trans Tech Publications, Ltd.
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