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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2017
Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, AE;
Ehab Najeh Salahat, Abu Dhabi, AE;
Hani Hasan Mustafa Saleh, Abu Dhabi, AE;
Andrzej Stefan Sluzek, Abu Dhabi, AE;
Mahmoud Al-Qutayri, Abu Dhabi, AE;
Baker Mohammad, Abu Dhabi, AE;
Mohammed Ismail Elnaggar, Abu Dhabi, AE;
Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, AE;
Abstract
Architecture and a method for maximally stable extremal regions (MSERs)-based detection of exudates in an ocular fundus is disclosed. The architecture includes a communication interface to receive pixels of an ocular fundus image. The architecture further includes processing circuitry that is coupled to the communication interface. The processing circuitry is configured to automatically provide labels for light image regions and dark image regions within the ocular fundus image for a given intensity threshold and find MSERs within the ocular fundus image based on the labels. The architecture also determines MSER regions based on the MSER criteria and then highlights the pixels of the ocular fundus image that are located within MSER regions to indicate the exudates in the ocular fundus. The architecture is further configured to determine MSER ellipses parameters based on MSER regions and MSER criteria and then highlight the locations of the exudates in the ocular fundus.