MUMBAI, India, Jan. 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202511102320 A) filed by Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, on Oct. 24, 2025, for 'system for early detection of diabetic retinopathy.'
Inventor(s) include Soosan Chhabra; Ginni Nijhawan; Dr. Navneet Khurana; and Dr. Vishal Sharma.
The application for the patent was published on Dec. 12, under issue no. 50/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A system for early detection of diabetic retinopathy, comprising a database 101 storing fundus photographs collected from multiple public and private sources, a preprocessing module 102 configured to enhance image quality, reduce noise, and normalize data for consistent analysis, a feature extraction module 103 generating a comprehensive set of image descriptors using techniques including Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE), B-CosFire, Hough transform, Local Binary Pattern (LBP), and Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM), a feature selection module 104 selecting relevant features to optimize classification performance, a classification module 105 employing machine learning protocols such as Extreme Gradient Boosting (XgBoost) and Random Forest with optimized parameters to classify images as indicative or non-indicative of diabetic retinopathy, and a prediction module 106 providing a diagnostic output to assist clinical decision-making, thereby enabling timely detection, accurate diagnosis, improved patient outcomes, and efficient management of diabetic retinopathy."
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