Learning-based segmentation of optic disc in retinal images using clustering trees and local mode filtering
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Delineation of the optic disc boundary in retinal images is the first step towards the computation of cup-to-disc ratio, an important indicator of ophthalmic pathologies such as glaucoma. This paper proposes the combination of learning-based clustering trees with local mode filtering for the segmentation of the optic disc region in retinal images. The algorithm identifies candidate optic disc region by extracting and pooling low-level features at different clustering resolutions from the filtered region-of-interest in two color channels. Thereafter, we use learned geometric properties such as area, eccentricity and solidity to extract high-level features for the identification of connected components, which most likely belong to the optic disc region. The final stage pools and fully connects these connected components into a single segmented region. Performance evaluation on three publicly available datasets from IDRID, DRISHTI-GS and MESSIDOR demonstrate promising results that are comparable to state-of-the-art algorithms.