A review of diabetic retinopathy: Datasets, approaches, evaluation metrics and future trends

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is the condition caused due to uncontrolled diabetes that can lead to vision impairment. It greatly affects the retinal blood vessels and diminishes the fundus light-sensitive inner coating. Early diagnosis and regular screening of this disease are essential for prompt processing through artificial intelligence techniques. This paper targets assessing the latest techniques for screening and diagnosing DR, including 94 articles based on the Detection and grading of DR. For every analyzed approach, tables are summarized detailing imaging procedure used, datasets, performance metrics used. The research gaps are also highlighted in this paper. Despite the consistent progression and methods actualized in this field, a couple of issues actually should be centered on. The noise and contrast of the image in Image enhancement are still in the infancy stage for high resolution. This study covers a review of existing image techniques, the gold standard and private datasets available, performance measures used for detection and grading of DR. Now the future research focuses on the amalgamation of the dataset as well as techniques to make the generalized technique for detecting the lesion in DR through an automated system. Moreover, various research gaps have also been taken into account for further research. This review is beneficial to the researchers working in the field of medical imaging to screen and diagnose diseases.