Diabetic Retinopathy Screening (DRS)

---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract The robust detection of red lesions in digital color fundus images is a critical step in the development of automated screening systems for diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy is damage to the retina of human eye which is caused by the complication of increase in blood glucose level which can eventually leads to blindness. The longer the patient has diabetes the higher the chance of developing diabetic retinopathy. In this paper, we introduce a novel method for automatic detection of red lesion in retinal images using dynamic shape features. Dynamic shape features is defined as new set of shape features. These features represent the evolution of the shape during image flooding and allow discriminating between lesions and vessel segments using watershed segmentation.