Eye Disease Detection Using Machine Learning

Abstract

The dominant causes of visual impairment worldwide are Cataract, Glaucoma, and retinal diseases among patients. The alarming cases of these diseases call for an urgent intervention by early diagnosis. The proposed system is designed and developed to easily facilitate the detection of cataract, glaucoma and retinal diseases among patients. The Logistic Regression, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting and Support Vector Machine algorithms are used for detection. The proposed system will help people to get the proper treatment of the aforementioned diseases at an early stage thus reducing the percentage of blindness being caused. The proposed system evaluates the effectiveness and safety of cataract surgery in eyes with age-related degeneration along with glaucoma and retinal diseases detection. This paper shows the accuracy of algorithms and SVM classifiers based upon the glaucoma, retina, cataract and normal eye’s fundus images. The idea of classifying the images based on its fundus and extracting features is widely known now-a-days and also it plays a vital role in the final outcome. This paper talks about the multiclass built models of these classifiers and on the basis of the ROC curves plotted it predicts the output of the images. As far as the algorithms are concerned, the efficiency of algorithms helps it stand best out of many and in our case Gradient boosting proves to give best results for the eye with cataract with 90% accuracy. Then the supervised algorithms logistic regression and random forest gives the accuracy of 89% and 86% respectively.