@inbook {IOPORT.05367716,
    author       = {Carnimeo, Leonarda},
    title        = {Diabetic damage detection in retinal images via a sparsely-connected neurofuzzy network.},
    year         = {2008},
    booktitle    = {Advanced intelligent computing theories and applications. With aspects of artificial intelligence. 4th international conference on intelligent computing, ICIC 2008, Shanghai, China, September 15--18, 2008. Proceedings},
    isbn         = {978-3-540-85983-3},
    pages        = {1175-1182},
    publisher    = {Berlin: Springer},
    doi          = {10.1007/978-3-540-85984-0_141},
    abstract     = {Summary: In this paper a contribution towards diabetic damage detection in retinal images is proposed by synthesizing a Sparsely Connected Neurofuzzy Network for fundus image processing in the presence of retinopathies. A Hopfield-like neurofuzzy subnetwork is firstly synthesized to obtain contrast-enhanced images. After an optimal thresholding performed by an MLP-based neural subsystem, contrast-enhanced images are then globally segmented by a further sparsely-connected neural subnet to highlight vague pale regions. In this way diabetic damaged areas reveal isolated in bipolar output images. Experimental cases are reported and discussed.},
    identifier   = {05367716},
}