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Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy Based on Convolutional Neural Networks: A Review

Halbast Rashid Ismael, Adnan Mohsin Abdulazeez, Dathar Abas Hasan

Asian Journal of Research in Computer Science · pp. 1–15 · Published 8 May 2021

10.9734/ajrcos/2021/v8i330200

Abstract

A major cause of human vision loss worldwide is Diabetic retinopathy (DR). The disease requires early screening for slowing down the progress. However, in low-resource settings where few ophthalmologists are available to care for all patients with diabetes, the clinical diagnosis of DR will be a considerable challenge. This paper, review the most recent studies on the detection of DR by using one of the efficient algorithms of deep learning, which is Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), which highly used to detect DR features from retinal images. CNNs approach to DR detection saves time and expense, and is more efficient and accurate than manual diagnostics. Therefore, CNN is essential and beneficial for DR detection.

Diabetic retinopathy retinal images detection convolutional neural networks

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