Table 1.

Results of suggested algorithm correlated with other studies for exudate detection

Author	Sensitivity, %	Specificity, %	Number of images
Ege et al. [4]	99	—	134
Osareh et al. [5]	96	94.6	150
Walter et al. [6]	92.8	—	30
Sopharak et al. [7]	80	99.5	60
Sanchez et al. [10]	100	100	58
Garcia et al. [11]	100	92.59	67
Zhang et al. [12]	96	89	82
suggested method	96.07	97.36	89