picture of Blake
Blake Mallory

Diabetic Retinopathy Neural Network Research

For my senior project I explored using Convolutional Neural Networks to diagnose different severities of eye disease caused by unmanged diabetes.

Eye with activations

Image showing where eye image caused weight activation(where the AI is "looking")

Project Overview

To graduate, one had to do a senior design project. My team decided to do a research project with regards to creating a AI model that could classify eye disease and explore how different preprocessing methods would affect or not affect the results.

Ironically, the best method was keeping the eye images in the original format. Regardless, this was my first time writing machine learning code from scratch and I learned a lot from this project and wrote all the code with regards to the model, training, and visualization.

Tools Used

Python
TensorFlow
Keras
Numpy
Matplotlib
Pandas