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Retinal image quality assessment, error identification and automatic quality correction

US9779492B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMar 15, 2016
Grant dateOct 3, 2017
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Expiry dateMar 31, 2036

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06V2201/03
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Automatically determining image quality of a machine generated image may generate a local saliency map of the image to obtain a set of unsupervised features. The image is run through a trained convolutional neural network (CNN) to extract a set of supervised features from a fully connected layer of the CNN, the image convolved with a set of learned kernels from the CNN to obtain a complementary set of supervised features. The set of unsupervised features and the complementary set of supervised features are combined, and a first decision on gradability of the image is predicted. A second decision on gradability of the image is predicted based on the set of supervised features. Whether the image is gradable is determined based on a weighted combination of the first decision and the second decision.

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