Quantum chimp-enanced SqueezeNet for precise diabetic retinopathy classification

Abstract Diabetic retinopathy remains a prominent cause of blindness throughout the world, and it is a product of prolonged high blood sugar levels that degrade the retinal blood vessels. This makes early detection of DR critical to stop irreversible blindness from occurring. This paper presents an...

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Main Authors: Anas Bilal, Muhammad Shafiq, Waeal J. Obidallah, Yousef A. Alduraywish, Alishba Tahir, Haixia Long
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Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-04-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-97686-w
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author Anas Bilal
Muhammad Shafiq
Waeal J. Obidallah
Yousef A. Alduraywish
Alishba Tahir
Haixia Long
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description Abstract Diabetic retinopathy remains a prominent cause of blindness throughout the world, and it is a product of prolonged high blood sugar levels that degrade the retinal blood vessels. This makes early detection of DR critical to stop irreversible blindness from occurring. This paper presents an advanced hybrid approach that utilizes the Quantum Chimp Optimization Algorithm (QCOA) integrated with SqueezeNet to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of DR classification significantly. The novel methodology was divided into two main stages: feature extraction and classification. Firstly, SqueezeNet enables efficient feature extraction from segmented fundus images with minimal computational complexity, ensuring that critical retinal features are captured effectively. The classification process, QCOA optimizes the Support Vector Machine (SVM) parameters and performs feature selection. The hybrid system effectively refines the performance of the SVM, consequently increasing the classification accuracies and optimizing the model’s performance. By leveraging QCOA’s capability to tune SVM parameters precisely, the proposed approach achieves remarkable classification accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity rates of 99.80%, 99.90%, and 100%, respectively. Fundamentally, the results display the efficiency and practical utility of the proposed approach, and its implementation in real-world clinical settings is likely to significantly improve the rates of early DR reflection and accurate classification for improved patient outcomes.
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spelling doaj-art-3b11820326a144f0a5270d4dd1a6df822025-08-20T02:17:57ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222025-04-0115111910.1038/s41598-025-97686-wQuantum chimp-enanced SqueezeNet for precise diabetic retinopathy classificationAnas Bilal0Muhammad Shafiq1Waeal J. Obidallah2Yousef A. Alduraywish3Alishba Tahir4Haixia Long5College of Information Science and Technology, Hainan Normal UniversitySchool of Information Engineering, Qujing Normal UniversityCollege of Computer and Information Sciences, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU)College of Computer and Information Sciences, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU)Shifa College of Medicine, Shifa Tamere Milat UniversityCollege of Information Science and Technology, Hainan Normal UniversityAbstract Diabetic retinopathy remains a prominent cause of blindness throughout the world, and it is a product of prolonged high blood sugar levels that degrade the retinal blood vessels. This makes early detection of DR critical to stop irreversible blindness from occurring. This paper presents an advanced hybrid approach that utilizes the Quantum Chimp Optimization Algorithm (QCOA) integrated with SqueezeNet to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of DR classification significantly. The novel methodology was divided into two main stages: feature extraction and classification. Firstly, SqueezeNet enables efficient feature extraction from segmented fundus images with minimal computational complexity, ensuring that critical retinal features are captured effectively. The classification process, QCOA optimizes the Support Vector Machine (SVM) parameters and performs feature selection. The hybrid system effectively refines the performance of the SVM, consequently increasing the classification accuracies and optimizing the model’s performance. By leveraging QCOA’s capability to tune SVM parameters precisely, the proposed approach achieves remarkable classification accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity rates of 99.80%, 99.90%, and 100%, respectively. Fundamentally, the results display the efficiency and practical utility of the proposed approach, and its implementation in real-world clinical settings is likely to significantly improve the rates of early DR reflection and accurate classification for improved patient outcomes.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-97686-wDiabetic retinopathyQuantum computingChimp optimizationSupport vector machineMulti-class classification
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Muhammad Shafiq
Waeal J. Obidallah
Yousef A. Alduraywish
Alishba Tahir
Haixia Long
Quantum chimp-enanced SqueezeNet for precise diabetic retinopathy classification
Scientific Reports
Diabetic retinopathy
Quantum computing
Chimp optimization
Support vector machine
Multi-class classification
title Quantum chimp-enanced SqueezeNet for precise diabetic retinopathy classification
title_full Quantum chimp-enanced SqueezeNet for precise diabetic retinopathy classification
title_fullStr Quantum chimp-enanced SqueezeNet for precise diabetic retinopathy classification
title_full_unstemmed Quantum chimp-enanced SqueezeNet for precise diabetic retinopathy classification
title_short Quantum chimp-enanced SqueezeNet for precise diabetic retinopathy classification
title_sort quantum chimp enanced squeezenet for precise diabetic retinopathy classification
topic Diabetic retinopathy
Quantum computing
Chimp optimization
Support vector machine
Multi-class classification
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-97686-w
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