Systems and methods for enhancement of retinal images

Abstract

Embodiments disclose systems and methods that aid in screening, diagnosis and/or monitoring of medical conditions. The systems and methods may allow, for example, for automated identification and localization of lesions and other anatomical structures from medical data obtained from medical imaging devices, computation of image-based biomarkers including quantification of dynamics of lesions, and/or integration with telemedicine services, programs, or software.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A computing system for enhancing a retinal image, the computing system comprising:
 one or more hardware computer processors; and   one or more storage devices configured to store software instructions configured for execution by the one or more hardware computer processors in order to cause the computing system to:
 access a medical retinal image I for enhancement, the medical retinal image related to a subject; 
 estimate the background   of the image at single or multiple scales; 
 scale the intensity I(x, y) at a first pixel location in the medical retinal image adaptively based on the intensity at a same position in the background image  (x, y) for generating an enhanced image.