International Journal of Engineering and Technology

Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide. As glaucoma progresses, more optic nerve tissue is lost and the optic cup grows which leads to vision loss. This paper compiles a system that could be used by non-experts to filtrate cases of patients not affected by the disease. This work proposes glaucomatous image classification using texture features within images and efficient glaucoma classification based on Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN). Energy distribution over wavelet sub bands is applied to compute these texture features. Wavelet features were obtained from the daubechies (db3), symlets (sym3), and biorthogonal (bio3.3, bio3.5, and bio3.7) wavelet filters. It uses a technique to extract energy signatures obtained using 2-D discrete wavelet transform and the energy obtained from the detailed coefficients can be used to distinguish between normal and glaucomatous images. We observed an accuracy of around 95%, this demonstrates the effectiveness of these methods.