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Eye fundus image quality represents a significant factor involved in ophthalmic screening. Usually, eye fundus image quality is affected by artefacts, brightness, and contrast hindering ophthalmic diagnosis. This paper presents a conditional generative adversarial network-based method to enhance eye fundus image quality, which is trained using automatically generated synthetic bad-quality/good-quality image pairs. The method was evaluated in a public eye fundus dataset with three classes: good, usable and bad quality according to specialist annotations with 0.64 Kappa. The proposed method enhanced the image quality from usable to good class in 72.33% of images. Likewise, the image quality was improved from the bad category to usable class, and from bad to good class in 56.21% and 29.49% respectively.
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Pérez, A.D., Perdomo, O., Rios, H., Rodríguez, F., González, F.A. (2020). A Conditional Generative Adversarial Network-Based Method for Eye Fundus Image Quality Enhancement. In: Fu, H., Garvin, M.K., MacGillivray, T., Xu, Y., Zheng, Y. (eds) Ophthalmic Medical Image Analysis. OMIA 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12069. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63419-3_19
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