Diabetic Retinopathy Detection using Deep Learning Model ResNet15

Diabetic Retinopathy stands out as one of the common retinal diseases which has a significant threat to vision and can lead to blindness. Several problems occurred due to DR can be stopped by controlling blood glucose and timely treatment, but the manual assessment of retinal images is often a lengthy process and can prevail human errors. This paper attempts in the direction of finding an automated way to classify the set of retinal images. The study starts with the collection of retinal images and pre- processing them, followed by training of a CNN model, Utilizing Deep Learning methodologies, CNN classifies the degree of diabetic retinopathy (DR) into four categories: 0 (no DR) to 4 (proliferative DR). We evaluate our model's performance using a diverse dataset. We use Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) strength to DR detection, which involves three major difficulties: Classification, Segmentation and Detection. We work towards developing a GUI based system to store and maintain a series of predictions with the patient's id and name. Twilio API have been used to make SMS connectivity to patients possible in case they are not accessible. Many research activities in the previous years have many limitations and disadvantages like models used other than Resnet have low accuracy, not capturing intricate features and patterns in images, Vanishing Gradient Descent and low performance for image classification. Resnet models that are previously used in DR detection with Resnet152, we can conclude that it has the lowest Training loss, lowest Test loss and it has the lowest loss Difference. We have worked on a RESNET-152 pre-trained deep learning model, which consists of thousands of layers and allows for the capturing of intricate features, high performance of image classification, and high accuracy, in order to overcome the issues and limitations of earlier developed models.