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The design of neural network classifiers for the identification of diabetic retinopathy is discussed. Red-free digitised fundal images are tiled, and a neural network is trained to distinguish exudates from drusen (similar appearing lesions). By quantifying the degree of retinopathy, the approach can be used to screen diabetic patients for referral. A novel form of hierarchical feature selection using sensitivity analysis is presented. The resulting neural network is compact, and achieves 91% sensitivity and specificity on a test set.
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Hunter, A., Lowell, J., Owens, J., Kennedy, L., Steele, D. (2000). Quantification of Diabetic Retinopathy using Neural Networks and Sensitivity Analysis. In: Malmgren, H., Borga, M., Niklasson, L. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks in Medicine and Biology. Perspectives in Neural Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0513-8_10
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