DETERMINING LEVELS OF HYPERTENSION FROM RETINAL VASCULATURE IMAGES

摘要

A computer-implemented method, system, and computer-readable medium, for determining a level of hypertension of a person. The method has steps of: acquiring image data defining a retinal image of a retina of the person that has been captured by a retinal imaging system; processing the image data to identify a plurality of vessel segments present in the retinal image; determining respective widths of vessel segments of at least a subset of the plurality of vessel segments present in the retinal image; and calculating, as a vascular summary metric, at least one average value or median value of the determined widths of the vessel segments present in the retinal image, to determine a level of hypertension by which the person has been affected.