Automatic optic disc and optic cup detection in retinal images acquired by mobile phone

Medical image processing plays an important role in the automatic detection of certain eye diseases, disease documentation, treatment monitoring and educational purposes. The continuous improvement of the hardware of mobile phones gives us the ability to capture images like this. Interesting question can be: are these images suitable for automatic image processing, or more specifically, how much information can be obtained from this kind of images? In this paper, we would like to investigate whether a mobile device suitable to use as a medical diagnostic tool. We present a comparison between images made by a mobile device and a clinical eye examination one. We perform optic disc and optic cup detection from which we calculate cup to disc ratio. Our results show that images acquired by mobile phone are suitable for automatic image processing. Beyond these, a database of images were set up to allow researchers to test their algorithms and methods for image processing.