Table 10.

Comparison of dark-lesion detection methods for the 45 retinal images with microaneurysms or hemorrhages of DIARETDB1 database.

Methods	Sensitivity	Specificity	AUC
Rocha et al. [54]	0.9000	0.6000	0.7640
Roychowdhury et al. [55]	0.7550	0.9373	0.8263
Ashraf et al. [56]	0.6763	0.6278	0.6500
Junior and Welfer [57]	0.8769	0.9244	-
Proposed method	0.7561 ± 0.0301	0.7562 ± 0.0290	0.8344 ± 0.0330