AbstractsMedical & Health Science

Human eye is a vital part of the human body Damage to the tiny newlineblood vessels in the retina due to diabetes is named as Diabetic Retinopathy newline DR Diabetes is one of the metabolic diseases for a person having high newlineblood sugar Excessive amount of glucose in the blood plasma is generally newlinetermed as Hyperglycemia or high blood sugar It leads to acute damage in the newlineretina of the eyes that causes vision loss termed as Retinopathy DR can affect newlineboth eyes without any prior signs and symptoms newlineScreening process in DR involves imaging of the fundus and newlineidentification of the abnormalities either by experts or automatic means newlineProper screening for DR at the early stage will reduce the risk of blindness In newlinethe screening process fundus image is captured using a digital device called newlinefundus camera A fast accurate and reliable method of detecting newlineabnormalities in images will help greatly in improving the DR screening newlineprocess The diagnosis of DR is becoming difficult and time consuming as newlinethere is inadequate number of ophthalmologists and sharp increase in diabetes newlinepatients It demands the development of automatic screening of fundus newlineimages newline newline%%%reference p171-182.