Evaluating CNN-Based Approaches for Diabetic Retinopathy Detection and Classification
摘要
Diabetic retinopathy (DR), one of the leading causes of blindness detection worldwide, necessitates early detection to prevent vision loss. In this work, we developed a system to classify the severity of DR using deep learning techniques. We evaluated three convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures—Inception V3, Visual Geometry Group 16 (VGG16), and EfficientNet B3—on the APTOS 2019 blindness detection dataset, which consists of retinal fundus images labelled by DR severity. To improve model performance, preprocessing techniques such as resizing, normalization, contrast enhancement using CLAHE, class balancing, and data augmentation techniques like rotation and zooming were applied to enhance image quality and address data imbalance. Among the three architectures, Inception V3 achieved the highest performance, with a training accuracy of 87.81% and a testing accuracy of 78.14%.