Risk Identification of Diabetic Macular Edema Using E-Adoption of Emerging Technology

The accumulation of the blood leaks on the retina is known as diabetic macular edema (DME), which can result in irreversible blindness. Early diagnosis and therapy can stop DME. This study presents an e-adoption of emerging technology such as RadioDense model for detecting and classifying DME from retinal fundus images. The proposed model employs a modified version of DenseNet121, radiomics features, and the gradient boosting classifier. The authors evaluated many classifiers on the concatenated features. The efficacy of the classifier is determined by comparing each classifier's accuracy values. According to the evaluation results, the concatenated features extraction using gradient boosting classifier outperforms all other classifiers on the IDRiD dataset. For multi-class classification, the suggested electronic adoption of emerging technology such as RadioDense model outperformed these classifiers and attained an accuracy of 87.4%. It can help to decrease the strain of ophthalmologists diagnosing the DME during locking and unlocking the worldwide lockdown.