Microaneurysms (MAs) localization for severity assessment

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a retinal complication that can cause blindness in diabetic patients. The early signs of diabetic retinopathy can be identified by the presence of microaneurysms (MAs) in the retina of the patients. The number of the MAs can indicate the severity of the disease. In this paper, the detection of the MAs using image processing techniques were proposed in order to determine the severity of MAs by counting the number of MAs in the image. In this work, 30 images from MESSIDOR and ImageRet database were utilized and the average accuracy obtained is 99.7%