Title
THALIA - An automatic hierarchical analysis system to detect drusen lesion images for amd assessment.
Abstract
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of permanent blindness. In its early stage AMD is characterized by drusen which are extracellelur deposits in the retina. In this paper, we present THALIA, an automatic system for the detection of drusen images for AMD assessment. First, the macular region of interest is detected using a seeded mode tracking approach. The macular region of interest is then mapped into a new representation using a hierarchicial word transform (HWI). In HWI, dense sampling is first carried out to generate structured pixels which embed local context. These structured pixels are then clustered using hierarchical k-means. The HWI image is subsequently classified using a SVM-based classifier. We have tested THALIA on a dataset of 350 images and obtained an accuracy of 95.46%. Results are promising for further validation of the THALIA system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ISBI.2013.6556617
ISBI
Keywords
Field
DocType
eye,image classification,image sampling,medical image processing,support vector machines,vision defects,SVM-based classifier,THALIA,age-related macular degeneration assessment,automatic hierarchical analysis system,dense sampling,drusen lesion image detection,extracellular deposits,hierarchical k-means clustering,hierarchicial word transform,image classification,macular region-of-interest,permanent blindness,retina,seeded mode tracking approach,structured pixels,support vector machines,AMD,drusen,retinal image
Thalia,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Support vector machine,Drusen,Pixel,Macular degeneration,Artificial intelligence,Region of interest,Contextual image classification,Classifier (linguistics)
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1945-7928
7
0.61
References 
Authors
4
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Damon Wing Kee Wong143437.78
Jiang Liu2406.00
Xiangang Cheng3556.96
Jie-Lin Zhang4112.40
Fengshou Yin51259.66
Mayuri Bhargava6181.61
Chui Ming Gemmy Cheung7181.61
Tien Yin Wong838938.10