Abnormality Detection in Retinal Images
Author(s)
Yu, Xiaoxue
Hsu, Wynne
Lee, Wee Sun
Lozano-Pérez, Tomás
Date Issued
January 2004
Series/Report no.
Computer Science (CS);
Abstract
The implementation of data mining techniques in the medical area has generated great interest because of its potential for more efficient, economic and robust performance when compared to physicians. In this paper, we focus on the implementation of Multiple-Instance Learning (MIL) in the area of medical image mining, particularly to hard exudates detection in retinal images from diabetic patients. Our proposed approach deals with the highly noisy images that are common in the medical area, improving the detection specificity while keeping the sensitivity as high as possible. We have also investigated the effect of feature selection on system performance. We describe how we implement the idea of MIL on the problem of retinal image mining, discuss the issues that are characteristic of retinal images as well as issues common to other medical image mining problems, and report the results of initial experiments.
Subjects
data mining
abnormality detection
multiple-instance learning
medical image mining
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