International Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing

   
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Volume 15, 2021

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Volume 15, 2021


Title of the Paper: No-Reference Retinal Image Sharpness Metric Using Daubechies Wavelet Transform

 

Authors: P. Vonghirandecha, P. Bhurayanontachai, S. Kansomkeat, S. Intajag

Pages: 1064-1071 

DOI: 10.46300/9106.2021.15.115     XML

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Abstract: Retinal fundus images are increasingly used by ophthalmologists both manually and without human intervention for detecting ocular diseases. Poor quality retinal images could lead to misdiagnosis or delayed treatment. Hence, a picture quality index was a crucial measure to ensure that the obtained images from acquisition system were suitable for reliable medical diagnosis. In this paper, a no-reference retinal image quality assessment based on wavelet transform is presented. A multiresolution Daubechies (db2) wavelet at level 4 was employed to decompose an original image into detail, and approximation sub-bands for extracting the sharpness information. The sharpness quality index was calculated from the entropy of the sub-bands. The proposed measure was validated by using images from the High-Resolution Fundus (HRF) dataset. The experimental results show that the proposed index performed more consistent with human visual perception and outperformed the Abdel-Hamid et al method.