An Intelligent Ensembling of Fine-Tuned Transfer Learning-Based Model for Cataract Diagnosis from Fundus Images

An Intelligent Ensembling of Fine-Tuned Transfer Learning-Based Model for Cataract Diagnosis from Fundus Images

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Volume-72 Issue-5
Year of Publication : 2024
Author : Mahdi Falah Mahdi Alyami, Meenu Garg, Vatsala Anand, Sheifali Gupta, Mana Saleh Al Reshan, Saleh Hamad Sajaan Almansour, Shoug Salem Hasan Alyami, Asadullah Shaikh
DOI : 10.14445/22315381/IJETT-V72I5P113

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Mahdi Falah Mahdi Alyami, Meenu Garg, Vatsala Anand, Sheifali Gupta, Mana Saleh Al Reshan, Saleh Hamad Sajaan Almansour, Shoug Salem Hasan Alyami, Asadullah Shaikh, "An Intelligent Ensembling of Fine-Tuned Transfer Learning-Based Model for Cataract Diagnosis from Fundus Images," International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology, vol. 72, no. 5, pp. 120-130, 2024. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/22315381/IJETT-V72I5P113

Abstract
Blindness and Visual Impairment are serious and pervasive health issues in the current situation. Although new innovative technologies are developing quickly, vision impairment continues to be a significant issue for global healthcare systems. Cataracts are among the most common causes of vision impairment. Accurate and rapid diagnosis of cataracts is the greatest way to prevent or treat it in its early stages. In this research, a weighted ensemble transfer learning based model is proposed for the prediction of cataracts from the fundus images. The weighted average ensemble is performed using three transfer learning models i.e. VGG16, VGG19 and ResNet50 model. Here, weight1, weight2 and weight3 are evaluated through optimisation for VGG16, VGG19 and ResNet50 models, respectively, to take the weighted average of three models. Different experiments based on different optimisers, different batch sizes and different numbers of epochs have been performed for the proposed ensemble model. Different transfer learning models, i.e. VGG16, VGG19 and ResNet50, are used individually also for training of the datasets and their performance is compared with the proposed ensemble model. The proposed weighted ensemble model is performing better as compared to the three transfer learning models with 99% sensitivity, 100% specificity, 100% precision, 64.5% recall and 99.37% accuracy.

Keywords
Artificial Intelligence, Cataract, Ensemble Mode, Ocular Disease Intelligent Recognition (ODIR), Transfer Learning (TF), Validation (Val).

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