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Automated screening for diabetic retinopathies: IT in the fight against preventable blindness

Grant number: 08/54443-2
Support Opportunities:Regular Research Grants
Start date: November 01, 2008
End date: June 30, 2011
Field of knowledge:Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computing Methodologies and Techniques
Agreement: Microsoft Research
Principal Investigator:Jacques Wainer
Grantee:Jacques Wainer
Host Institution: Instituto de Computação (IC). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This study has the following objectives: 1) To develop a system for screening patients that will accurately detect cases of diabetic retinopathy through dilated eye examination – The system will be used as an automated retinopathy classification system, distinguishing between normal images (patients who do not require further attention) and images suggestive of retinopathy (patients who require the attention of a specialist). Therefore, specialists will not need to examine patients in whom no change in the fundus oculi is expected, allowing the specialists to do their job more efficiently. The expectation is that this system will produce few false-negative results (i.e., not detecting retinopathy when it is present), because an indication that there is no change in the fundus oculi Jacques Wainer Institute of Computer Science / State University of Campinas (Unicamp) would exclude the patient in question from receiving the attention of a specialist. The system should detect the following changes, all of which are suggestive of diabetic retinopathy: hemorrhage, exudates, vascular changes, scarring, hyperpigmentation, and hypopigmentation. The initial version of the system will not detect macular edema, which is also associated with diabetes. 2) To implement the system in a true teleophthalmology service, in which only images suggestive of disorder will be referred to specialists – This deployment is aimed at assessing the system “in production” and assessing the needs of infrastructure and organizational requirements for maintaining a diabetic retinopathy teleophthalmology service with automated support. (AU)

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)
ROCHA, ANDERSON; HAUAGGE, DANIEL C.; WAINER, JACQUES; GOLDENSTEIN, SIOME. Automatic fruit and vegetable classification from images. COMPUTERS AND ELECTRONICS IN AGRICULTURE, v. 70, n. 1, p. 96-104, . (07/52015-0, 08/08681-9, 05/58103-3, 08/54443-2)
PIRES, RAMON; AVILA, SANDRA; JELINEK, HERBERT F.; WAINER, JACQUES; VALLE, EDUARDO; ROCHA, ANDERSON. Beyond Lesion-Based Diabetic Retinopathy: A Direct Approach for Referral. IEEE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS, v. 21, n. 1, p. 193-200, . (08/54443-2, 10/05647-4)
PIRES, RAMON; CARVALHO, TIAGO; SPURLING, GEOFFREY; GOLDENSTEIN, SIOME; WAINER, JACQUES; LUCKIE, ALAN; JELINEK, HERBERT F.; ROCHA, ANDERSON. Automated Multi-Lesion Detection for Referable Diabetic Retinopathy in Indigenous Health Care. PLoS One, v. 10, n. 6, . (08/54443-2, 10/05647-4)