Diabetic retinopathy grading using curvelet CNN with optimized SSO activations and wavelet-based image enhancement

Background: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a significant risk of blindness among diabetic patients, necessitating early and accurate detection. Existing methods often fall short in identifying key markers like hard exudates (HE), leading to challenges in assessing disease severity. Issues: Diabetes pa...

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Main Authors: N. Mohana Suganthi, M. Arun
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Published: Elsevier 2025-01-01
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description Background: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a significant risk of blindness among diabetic patients, necessitating early and accurate detection. Existing methods often fall short in identifying key markers like hard exudates (HE), leading to challenges in assessing disease severity. Issues: Diabetes patients need to be diagnosed early for diabetic retinopathy (DR) to reduce the risk of blindness. Many conventional methods fail to detect hard run-in retinopathy images used to determine diabetes severity. Method: In this paper, a novel Curvelet convolutional neural networks (CCNN) framework has been proposed to detect DR. Initially, the input retinal fundus images (RFI) are denoised using Wavelet Integrated Retinex (WIR) Algorithm to reduce the noise artifacts. After that, Curvelet convolutional neural networks (CCNN) are utilized to categorize the image as normal and abnormal. Furthermore, the Salp Swarm Optimization (SSO) algorithm is employed to enhance the classification performance of CCNN. Results: The proposed method achieves a remarkable 99.46 % accuracy, significantly surpassing the performance of leading CNN-based models. The Proposed Curvelet CNN approach enhances the overall accuracy by 2.17 %, 7.42 %, and 20.46 % better than DenseNet 121, Triple-DRNet, and EfficientNetB4 respectively.
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spelling doaj-art-ea01b9704e334da799de0ad5c3f990832025-01-17T04:49:27ZengElsevierAin Shams Engineering Journal2090-44792025-01-01161103239Diabetic retinopathy grading using curvelet CNN with optimized SSO activations and wavelet-based image enhancementN. Mohana Suganthi0M. Arun1Corresponding author.; Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600062 IndiaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600062 IndiaBackground: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a significant risk of blindness among diabetic patients, necessitating early and accurate detection. Existing methods often fall short in identifying key markers like hard exudates (HE), leading to challenges in assessing disease severity. Issues: Diabetes patients need to be diagnosed early for diabetic retinopathy (DR) to reduce the risk of blindness. Many conventional methods fail to detect hard run-in retinopathy images used to determine diabetes severity. Method: In this paper, a novel Curvelet convolutional neural networks (CCNN) framework has been proposed to detect DR. Initially, the input retinal fundus images (RFI) are denoised using Wavelet Integrated Retinex (WIR) Algorithm to reduce the noise artifacts. After that, Curvelet convolutional neural networks (CCNN) are utilized to categorize the image as normal and abnormal. Furthermore, the Salp Swarm Optimization (SSO) algorithm is employed to enhance the classification performance of CCNN. Results: The proposed method achieves a remarkable 99.46 % accuracy, significantly surpassing the performance of leading CNN-based models. The Proposed Curvelet CNN approach enhances the overall accuracy by 2.17 %, 7.42 %, and 20.46 % better than DenseNet 121, Triple-DRNet, and EfficientNetB4 respectively.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090447924006208Diabetic retinopathyCurvelet CNNDeep learningAlexNetSalp Swarm Optimization
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M. Arun
Diabetic retinopathy grading using curvelet CNN with optimized SSO activations and wavelet-based image enhancement
Ain Shams Engineering Journal
Diabetic retinopathy
Curvelet CNN
Deep learning
AlexNet
Salp Swarm Optimization
title Diabetic retinopathy grading using curvelet CNN with optimized SSO activations and wavelet-based image enhancement
title_full Diabetic retinopathy grading using curvelet CNN with optimized SSO activations and wavelet-based image enhancement
title_fullStr Diabetic retinopathy grading using curvelet CNN with optimized SSO activations and wavelet-based image enhancement
title_full_unstemmed Diabetic retinopathy grading using curvelet CNN with optimized SSO activations and wavelet-based image enhancement
title_short Diabetic retinopathy grading using curvelet CNN with optimized SSO activations and wavelet-based image enhancement
title_sort diabetic retinopathy grading using curvelet cnn with optimized sso activations and wavelet based image enhancement
topic Diabetic retinopathy
Curvelet CNN
Deep learning
AlexNet
Salp Swarm Optimization
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090447924006208
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