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Hard Exudates Detection: A Review

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Hard exudates in the retina are the white or yellowish-white small deposits with sharp boundaries that appear as waxy, glistening or shiny surfaces. The hard exudates are located in the outer layer of retina and in deep to the retinal vessels. The damage on the retina of the eye, termed retinopathy may give us a clue to the vision injury or vision loss. Retinopathy is also evident in diabetic patients or in hypertension. This paper presents a complete review of some latest methods for detecting hard exudates in retinal images. This paper will help the researcher in studying the newest technique of various diabetic retinopathy and hypertensive retinopathy screening methodologies. The previously proposed techniques to detect hard exudates and retinal exudates are discussed in this present paper and the automated identification of hard exudates in hypertensive retinopathy is also discussed in the proposed paper.

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    Satya Bhushan Verma & Abhay Kumar Yadav

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  1. Faculty of Computers and Information Technology, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

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  2. Rajnagar Mahavidyalaya, Birbhum, India

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  3. Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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Verma, S.B., Yadav, A.K. (2021). Hard Exudates Detection: A Review. In: Hassanien, A.E., Bhattacharyya, S., Chakrabati, S., Bhattacharya, A., Dutta, S. (eds) Emerging Technologies in Data Mining and Information Security. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1286. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9927-9_12

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