Brownian-Distribution Algorithm Optimized Efficientnet Features for Normal/Glaucoma Retinal Fundus Image Classification

The eye is a critical sensory organ in human physiology, and any abnormality in the eye will result in vision problems ranging from mild to severe. Image-guided methods are frequently employed to conduct clinical-level eye health assessments, and retinal fundus imaging (RFI) is among the most frequently employed modalities for eye analysis. This research aims to implement a Deep-Learning (DL)-based technique for classifying the Normal/Glaucoma RFI database. This scheme consist following phases, image collection and labelling, feature extraction with EfficientNet, feature optimization using a novel Brownian-Distribution Algorithm (BDA), and binary classification with 3-fold cross validation. Initially, the proposed approach performs the classification with EfficientNet-model features and documents the results. Subsequently, the BDA is employed to optimize the features in order to identify the most significant ones. Serial features-fusion is then implemented to generate a new features vector. The results of this study confirm that this approach is capable of achieving a 100 % accuracy rate when the BDA optimized feature vector is utilized for the classification task. In the future, this application may be utilized to analyze the RFI collected from hospital.