AUTOMATIC LOCALIZATION OF FOVEA CENTER USING MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY IN FUNDUS IMAGES.

In this work, we present a fovea center localization method in digital color photographs of the retina (color eye fundus images). The proposed method is based on prior knowledge of optic disk center and optic disk diameter. The detection of this anatomical feature is a prerequisite for the computer aided diagnosis of several retinal diseases, such as Diabetic Maculopathy. The proposed method is evaluated on 33 retinal photographs from public DRIVE data set. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method is able to detect the fovea center by providing encouraging results.