A feature selection strategy to optimize retinal vasculature segmentation

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a complication of diabetes mellitus that appears in the retina. Clinitians use retina images to detect DR pathological signs related to the occlusion of tiny blood vessels. Such occlusion brings a degenerative cycle between the breaking off and the new generation of thin...

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Escorcia-Gutierrez, Jose
Torrents-Barrena, Jordina
Gamarra, Margarita
Madera, Natasha
Romero-Aroca, Pedro
Valls, Aida
Puig, Domenec
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Diabetic retinopathy
Artificial neural networks
Decision trees
Support vector machines
Feature selection
Retinal vasculature segmentation
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dc.title.eng.fl_str_mv A feature selection strategy to optimize retinal vasculature segmentation
title A feature selection strategy to optimize retinal vasculature segmentation
spellingShingle A feature selection strategy to optimize retinal vasculature segmentation
Diabetic retinopathy
Artificial neural networks
Decision trees
Support vector machines
Feature selection
Retinal vasculature segmentation
title_short A feature selection strategy to optimize retinal vasculature segmentation
title_full A feature selection strategy to optimize retinal vasculature segmentation
title_fullStr A feature selection strategy to optimize retinal vasculature segmentation
title_full_unstemmed A feature selection strategy to optimize retinal vasculature segmentation
title_sort A feature selection strategy to optimize retinal vasculature segmentation
dc.creator.fl_str_mv Escorcia-Gutierrez, Jose
Torrents-Barrena, Jordina
Gamarra, Margarita
Madera, Natasha
Romero-Aroca, Pedro
Valls, Aida
Puig, Domenec
dc.contributor.author.spa.fl_str_mv Escorcia-Gutierrez, Jose
Torrents-Barrena, Jordina
Gamarra, Margarita
Madera, Natasha
Romero-Aroca, Pedro
Valls, Aida
Puig, Domenec
dc.subject.proposal.eng.fl_str_mv Diabetic retinopathy
Artificial neural networks
Decision trees
Support vector machines
Feature selection
Retinal vasculature segmentation
topic Diabetic retinopathy
Artificial neural networks
Decision trees
Support vector machines
Feature selection
Retinal vasculature segmentation
description Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a complication of diabetes mellitus that appears in the retina. Clinitians use retina images to detect DR pathological signs related to the occlusion of tiny blood vessels. Such occlusion brings a degenerative cycle between the breaking off and the new generation of thinner and weaker blood vessels. This research aims to develop a suitable retinal vasculature segmentation method for improving retinal screening procedures by means of computer-aided diagnosis systems. The blood vessel segmentation methodology relies on an effective feature selection based on Sequential Forward Selection, using the error rate of a decision tree classifier in the evaluation function. Subsequently, the classification process is performed by three alternative approaches: artificial neural networks, decision trees and support vector machines. The proposed methodology is validated on three publicly accessible datasets and a private one provided by Hospital Sant Joan of Reus. In all cases we obtain an average accuracy above 96% with a sensitivity of 72% in the blood vessel segmentation process. Compared with the state-of-the-art, our approach achieves the same performance as other methods that need more computational power. Our method significantly reduces the number of features used in the segmentation process from 20 to 5 dimensions. The implementation of the three classifiers confirmed that the five selected features have a good effectiveness, independently of the classification algorithm.
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spelling Escorcia-Gutierrez, JoseTorrents-Barrena, JordinaGamarra, MargaritaMadera, NatashaRomero-Aroca, PedroValls, AidaPuig, Domenec2022-03-10T19:02:53Z2022-03-10T19:02:53Z2022Escorcia-Gutierrez, J., Torrents-Barrena, J., Gamarra, M., Madera, N., Romero-Aroca, P. et al. (2022). A Feature Selection Strategy to Optimize Retinal Vasculature Segmentation. CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, 70(2), 2971–2989.1546-2218https://hdl.handle.net/11323/9061doi:10.32604/cmc.2022.0200741546-2226Corporación Universidad de la CostaREDICUC - Repositorio CUChttps://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a complication of diabetes mellitus that appears in the retina. Clinitians use retina images to detect DR pathological signs related to the occlusion of tiny blood vessels. Such occlusion brings a degenerative cycle between the breaking off and the new generation of thinner and weaker blood vessels. This research aims to develop a suitable retinal vasculature segmentation method for improving retinal screening procedures by means of computer-aided diagnosis systems. The blood vessel segmentation methodology relies on an effective feature selection based on Sequential Forward Selection, using the error rate of a decision tree classifier in the evaluation function. Subsequently, the classification process is performed by three alternative approaches: artificial neural networks, decision trees and support vector machines. The proposed methodology is validated on three publicly accessible datasets and a private one provided by Hospital Sant Joan of Reus. In all cases we obtain an average accuracy above 96% with a sensitivity of 72% in the blood vessel segmentation process. Compared with the state-of-the-art, our approach achieves the same performance as other methods that need more computational power. Our method significantly reduces the number of features used in the segmentation process from 20 to 5 dimensions. The implementation of the three classifiers confirmed that the five selected features have a good effectiveness, independently of the classification algorithm.15 páginasapplication/pdfengTech Science PressUnited States© 1997-2020 TSP (Henderson, USA) unless otherwise statedAtribución 4.0 Internacional (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2A feature selection strategy to optimize retinal vasculature segmentationArtículo de revistahttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1Textinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/redcol/resource_type/ARTinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionhttps://www.thucamp.com/cmc/v70n2/44677Computers, Materials and Continua1. J. M. Baena-Díez, J. Peñafiel, I. Subirana, R. Ramos, R. Elosua et al., “Risk of cause-specific death in individuals with diabetes: A competing risks analysis,” Diabetes Care, vol. 39, no. 11, pp. 1987–1995, 2016.2. R. F. Mansour, “Evolutionary computing enriched computer-aided diagnosis system for diabetic retinopathy: A survey,” IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, vol. 10, pp. 334–349, 2017.3. D. Mauricio, N. Alonso and M. Gratacòs, “Chronic diabetes complications: The need to move beyond classical concepts,” Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 287–295, 2020.4. M. M. Nentwich and M. W. Ulbig, “Diabetic retinopathy-ocular complications of diabetes mellitus,” World Journal of Diabetes, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 489–499, 2015.5. S. R. Flaxman, R. Bourne, S. Resnikoff, P. Ackland, T. Braithwaite et al., “Global causes of blindness and distance vision impairment 1990–2020: A systematic review and meta-analysis,” The Lancet Global Health, vol. 5, no. 12, pp. e1221–e1234, 2017.6. S. S. Rahim, V. Palade, J. Shuttleworth and C. Jayne, “Automatic screening and classification of diabetic retinopathy fundus images,” in 15th Int. Conf. on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, Sofia, Bulgaria, pp. 113–122, 2014.7. P. Romero-Aroca, S. de la Riva-Fernandez, A. Valls-Mateu, R. Sagarra-Alamo, A. Moreno-Ribas et al., “Cost of diabetic retinopathy and macular oedema in a population, an eight year follow up,” BMC Ophthalmology, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 1–7, 2016.8. A. Osareh, B. Shadgar and R. Markham, “A computational-intelligence-based approach for detection of exudates in diabetic retinopathy images,” IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 535–545, 2009.9. R. Geetha Ramani and L. Balasubramanian, “Retinal blood vessel segmentation employing image processing and data mining techniques for computerized retinal image analysis,” Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 102–118, 2016.10. S. W. Franklin and S. E. Rajan, “Computerized screening of diabetic retinopathy employing blood vessel segmentation in retinal images,” Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 117–124, 2014.11. S. Moccia, E. De Momi, S. El Hadji and L. S. Mattos, “Blood vessel segmentation algorithms—review of methods, datasets and evaluation metrics,” Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 158, no. 6801, pp. 71–91, 2018.12. A. Imran, J. Li, Y. Pei, J. J. Yang and Q. Wang, “Comparative analysis of vessel segmentation techniques in retinal images,” IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 114862–114887, 2019.13. M. M. Fraz, P. Remagnino, A. Hoppe, B. Uyyanonvara, A. R. Rudnicka et al., “Blood vessel segmentation methodologies in retinal images–a survey,” Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 108, no. 1, pp. 407–433, 2012.14. D. Marín, A. Aquino, M. E. Gegundez-Arias and J. M. 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