Comparative analysis of deep learning classifiers for diabetic retinopathy identification and detection

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a micro vascular problem caused by diabetes that can lead to loss of sight. The early detection of diabetic retinopathy is important to avoid the severity of sightlessness. In this manuscript, a comparative analysis of several deep learning methods for DR identification is proposed. The input fundus images are taken from a standard dataset pre-processed by the Mathematical Morphology process. Moreover, the images are segregated using a Multilevel segmentation of the Region of interest (ROI) based on the split and merge algorithm. After that, an original deep learning architecture is utilized to categorize the segregated fundus images. Deep learning methods, such as Convolution neural network (CNN), Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Fuzzy K-means cluster (FKM) and Discriminant Analysis (DA) are proposed to classify the DR. The proposed DR identification and detection with CNN provides 65.54% SP, 100% SE, 78.54% SV and 96.95% ACC. Finally, CNN shows better performance than other classifiers.