Diabetic Retinopathy Identification using Deep Believe Network

Diabetic retinopathy is an eye disease caused by swelling in blood vessels. If it gets worse the blood vessels will rupture and this is the main factor of blindness. This disease is rarely found in children and symptoms can be seen during puberty. One way to find out this disease is a wide and comprehensive pupil jerky eye examination performed by an ophthalmologist manually. Manual examination takes a long time and can cause misidentification because the similarity of characteristics of diabetic retinopathy is difficult to see directly. Because of this problem a method is needed that can facilitate the eye doctor in identifying diabetic retinopathy by simply inserting a retinal image into the system. The method proposed in this study is Deep Belief Network (DBN). The steps taken before identification are the image of the retina undergoing pre-processing in the form of grayscale, median filter, contrast stretching, morphological close operation and feature extraction using the Grey level Counselling Matrix (GLCM). In this study it was shown that the proposed method was able to identify diabetic retinopathy with 84% accuracy, sensitivity 93%, and specificity 70%.