Eye Disease Segmentation using Hybrid Neural Encoder Decoder based Unet Hybrid Inception

Abstract

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the major causes of vision problems worldwide. With proper treatment, early diagnosis of DR can prevent the progression of the disease. In this paper, we present a combinative method using U-Net with a modified Inception architecture for the diagnosis of both the diseases. The proposed method is based on deep neural architecture formalising encoder decoder modelling with convolutional architectures namely Inception and Residual Connection. The performance of the proposed model was validated on the IDRid 2019 contest dataset. Experiments demonstrate that the modified Inception deep feature extractor improves DR classification with a classification accuracy of 99.34% in IDRid across classes with comparison to Resnet. The paper Benchmark tests the dataset with proposed model of Hybrid Dense-ED-UHI: Encoder Decoder based U-Net Hybrid Inception model with 15 fold cross validation. The paper in details discusses the various metrics of the proposed model with various visualisation and multifield validations.