A Deep Learning Ensemble Approach for Diabetic Retinopathy Detection

By Sehrish Qummar, Fiaz Gul Khan, Sajid Shah, Ahmad Khan, Shahaboddin Shamshirband, Zia ur Rehman, Iftikhar Ahmed Khan, Waqas Jadoon. IEEE Access, 2019

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Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is an ophthalmic disease that damages retinal blood vessels. DR causes impaired vision and may even lead to blindness if it is not diagnosed in early stages. DR has five stages or classes, namely normal, mild, moderate, severe and PDR (Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy). Normally, highly trained experts examine the colored fundus images to diagnose this fatal disease. This manual diagnosis of this condition (by clinicians) is tedious and error-prone. Therefore, various computer vision-based techniques have been proposed to automatically detect DR and its different stages from retina images. However, these methods are unable to encode the underlying complicated features and can only classify DR’s different stages with very low accuracy particularly, for the early stages. In this research, we used the publicly available Kaggle dataset of retina images to train an ensemble of five deep Convolution Neural Network (CNN) models (Resnet50, Inceptionv3, Xception, Dense121, Dense169) to encode the rich features and improve the classification for different stages of DR. The experimental results show that the proposed model detects all the stages of DR unlike the current methods and performs better compared to state-of-the-art methods on the same Kaggle dataset.

Subfields: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Ophthalmology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

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A Survey on ensemble learning under the era of deep learning (2021, methodology): “, (Qummar et al. 2019) constructed an ensemble deep learning approach based on five deep CNN architectures, including ResNet-50 (He et al.”
Analysis of Dimensionality Reduction Techniques on Big Data (2020, methodology): “[23] Convolution Neural Network (CNN) models Improved the classification at different stages of DR.”