In this paper we demonstrate an automated pipeline for segmentation of the optic disk and hard exudates in retinal fundus images. The image is preprocessed to normalize luminosity and contrast throughout the image, and blood vessels are removed to reduce interference with the high-contrast properties of the optic disk and hard exudates. A pretrained VGG-16 U-net convolutional neural network is used for segmentation of the optic disk and ROI definition for hard exudates. The exudates are then segmented with a filtering method to isolate a rough segmentation, which is used to identify inputs to a U-net pretrained on exudate regions.
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