A Novel Method for Detecting the Fovea in Fundus Images of the Eye

In this paper we propose a novel method for finding the fovea in colored images of the eye fundus. We use an image correlation coefficient to find the fovea, which is calculated from a set of template images of the fovea. The results, using the DIARETDB1 database, indicate that our method detects the fovea region with an accuracy of 82,02%.