Behdad Dashtbozorg receives Best Poster Award from RecPad 2014

Behdad Dashtbozorg has been awarded by RecPad 2014, 20th edition of the Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition with the Best Poster Award, regarding the paper entitled RetinaCAD - Retinal Computer-Aided Diagnosis System.

RecPad 2014 was organized by the APRP (Associação Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões – Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition). The award was integrated in the project untitled “RetinaCAD - Retinal Computer-Aided Diagnosis System”.

One of the major advances in retinal vascular imaging research in the last decade has been the clear demonstration that physiological and pathological alterations in the retinal vascular network are associated with a variety of worldwide major diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases. However, the clinical assessment of the retinal vascular condition is most of the times tiresome, and prone to errors, particularly if occurs in a screening environment. Recent advances in image analysis can avoid this workload and provide the ophthalmologist with objective and reproducible results useful in daily clinical practice.

RetinaCAD is a computer-aided diagnosis system for fast, reliable and automatic measurement of several retinal biomarkers, namely the Central Retinal Arteriolar Equivalent (CRAE), the Central Retinal Venular Equivalent (CRVE), and the Arteriolar-to-Venular Ratio (AVR) values, as well as several geometrical features associated with vessel bifurcations. In order to calculate these biomarkers, RetinaCAD starts by identifying importantlandmarks in the retina, such as the blood vessels and optic disc, and performs artery/vein classification and vessel width measurement.