RETINAL IMAGE PROCESSING FOR DIABETIC RETINOPATHY

The Diabetic Retinopathy consists of lesions characteristic group extracted from the retinal image of individual person had diabetes for several years. It aims to present the different techniques for automatic localization of different retinal features as well as lesions. It presents various methods which are used in identifying macular edema. The detection of macular edema assists ophthalmologists in order to apply proper treatments which resulted into the elimination of disease completely or minimize its severity. The World Health Organization (WHO) overall in world, there are about 135 million people have diabetes mellitus. And this number may increase up to 300 million by 2025. The analysis of medical image is growing research area which attracts number of researcher’s interests for new methods.