RT Journal Article
T1 Detecting the optic disc boundary in digital fundus images using morphological, edge detection, and feature extraction techniques
A1 Gegúndez Arias, Manuel Emilio
A1 Marín Santos, Diego
A1 Aquino Martín, Arturo
A2 Universidad de Huelva. Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica, de Sistemas Informáticos y Automática
K1 Oftalmología-Instrumentos
AB Optic disc (OD) detection is an important step in developing systems for automated diagnosis of various serious ophthalmic pathologies. This paper presents a new template-based methodology for segmenting the OD from digital retinal images. This methodology uses morphological and edge detection techniques followed by the Circular Hough Transform to obtain a circular OD boundary approximation. It requires a pixel located within the OD as initial information. For this purpose, a location methodology based on a voting-type algorithm is also proposed. The algorithms were evaluated on the 1200 images of the publicly available MESSIDOR database. The location procedure succeeded in 99% of cases, taking an average computational time of 1.67 s. with a standard deviation of 0.14 s. On the other hand, the segmentation algorithm rendered an average common area overlapping between automated segmentations and true OD regions of 86%. The average computational time was 5.69 s with a standard deviation of 0.54 s. Moreover, a discussion on advantages and disadvantages of the models more generally used for OD segmentation is also presented in this paper.
PB IEEE
SN 0278-0062
YR 2010
FD 2010-11
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/4446
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/4446
LA eng
NO Aquino, A., Gegúndez Arias, M.E., Marín Santos, D.:"Detecting the optic disc boundary in digital fundus images using morphological, edge detection, and feature extraction techniques".  IEEE Transactions on  Medical Imaging, 29 (11): 1860-1869 NOV 2010. ISSN 0278-0062
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026