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Abstract

Diabetic retinopathy is one of the most significant retinal diseases that can lead to blindness. As a result, it is critical to receive a prompt diagnosis of the disease. Manual screening can result in misdiagnosis due to human error and limited human capability. In such cases, using a deep learning-based automated diagnosis of the disease could aid in early detection and treatment. In deep learning-based analysis, the original and segmented blood vessels are typically used for diagnosis. However, it is still unclear which approach is superior. In this study, a comparison of two deep learning approaches (Inception v3 and DenseNet-121) was performed on two different datasets of colored images and segmented images. The study’s findings revealed that the accuracy for original images on both Inception v3 and DenseNet-121 equaled 0.8 or higher, whereas the segmented retinal blood vessels under both approaches provided an accuracy of just greater than 0.6, demonstrating that the segmented vessels do not add much utility to the deep learning-based analysis. The study’s findings show that the original-colored images are more significant in diagnosing retinopathy than the extracted retinal blood vessels.

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Title
Automated Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy Using Deep Learning: On the Search of Segmented Retinal Blood Vessel Images for Better Performance
Author
Khan, Mohammad B 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Mohiuddin, Ahmad 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Yaakob, Shamshul B 3 ; Shahrior, Rahat 1 ; Rashid, Mohd A 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Higa, Hiroki 5 

 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Khulna 9203, Bangladesh 
 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Khulna Engineering and Technology, Khulna 9203, Bangladesh 
 Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Technology, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Arau 02600, Malaysia 
 Department of EEE, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Noakhali 3814, Bangladesh 
 Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa 903-0129, Japan 
First page
413
Publication year
2023
Publication date
2023
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
23065354
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2806471056
Copyright
© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.