Title
Automatic Microaneurysm Detection Using the Sparse Principal Component Analysis-Based Unsupervised Classification Method.
Abstract
Since microaneurysms (MAs) can be seen as the earliest lesions in diabetic retinopathy, its detection plays a critical role in the diabetic retinopathy diagnosis. In recent years, many machine-learning methods have been developed for MA detection. Generally, MA candidates are first identified and then a set of features for these candidates are extracted. Finally, machine-learning methods are applied for candidate classification. In this paper, we present a novel unsupervised classification method based on sparse posterior cerebral artery (PCA) for MA detection. Since it does not have to consider a non-MA training set, the class imbalance problem can be avoided. Furthermore, effective features can be selected due to the characteristic of sparse PCA, which combines the elastic net penalty with the PCA. Meanwhile, a single T-2 statistic is introduced, and the control limit can be determined for distinguishing true MAs from spurious candidates automatically. Experiment results on the retinopathy online challenge competition database show the effectiveness of our proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2671918
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Diabetic retinopathy,microaneurysm detection,sparse PCA,unsupervised classification
Retinopathy,Sparse PCA,Control limits,Statistic,Pattern recognition,Elastic net regularization,Computer science,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Spurious relationship,Principal component analysis
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5
2169-3536
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.62
11
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei Zhou1181.75
Chengdong Wu225046.36
Dali Chen3606.10
Yugen Yi49215.25
Wenyou Du5212.55