Abstract
In recent years, eye diseases in diabetic patients are one of the most common has been diabetic retinopathy (DR). which leads to complete blindness in advanced stages. Diabetes affects the blood vessels in the retina and causes vision loss. One of the ways to decrease the risk of this issue is to detect diabetic retinopathy in its early stages. This study describes a computer-aided screening system (DREAM) that uses a neural network classification model in machine learning to assess fundus images with different illumination and fields of vision and provide a severity grade for diabetic retinopathy. Moreover, the methodology of this study based on:•Enhancement techniques have been used on dataset images, histogram equalization, noise reduction and image scaling,•vSLAM has been selected as feature extraction,•Bilayered Neural Network under resubstitution validation used as a classification model. Finally, after testing on the DR severity grading system is tested on 6332 images of detection of diabetic retinopathy images, the result of the ROC curve is 0.985 on image dataset and obtains accuracy reached 98.5%. The classification result has been founded under MATLAB platform, beside it that be work with real time analysis and detection when patient eyes analysis.