Niousha Hormozi, Seyed Amirhassan Monadjemi and Gholamali Naderian, University of Isfahan, Iran

ROP is an eye disease in premature infants.In infants who are born earlier than normal, retinal vessel growth stops. Early treatment is very crucial in this case as it can end up to blindness if the diagnosis has not done in a short time.The purpose of this research is to design an intelligent automated system for the early detection of disease at an early stage to prevent these babies from dangerous consequences.In this study, we analyzed the images in the Lab color space, and evaluated the efficiency of applying filters named, Canny Laplacian and Sobel.The results indicate relatively higher efficiency and quality of the Laplacian filter in ROP diagnosis.

Retinopathy of prematurity, Canny filters, Laplacian filters, Sobel operator, Lab color space, ROP