Robust Diabetic Retinopathy Grading Using Dual-Resolution Attention-Based Deep Learning with Ordinal Regression

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17341v1
• Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:27:37 GMT
• Title: Robust Diabetic Retinopathy Grading Using Dual-Resolution Attention-Based Deep Learning with Ordinal Regression
• Abstract summary: This study presents a robust dual-resolution deep learning framework for Diabetic retinopathy grading.<n>It integrates attention-based feature fusion with ordinal regression to improve cross-dataset generalization.<n> Experimental results demonstrate strong grading performance, achieving a quadratic weighted kappa (QWK) of 0.88 on the APTOS validation set and 0.68 on the unseen Messidor-2 dataset.
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• Abstract: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of vision impairment worldwide, and automated grading systems play a crucial role in large-scale screening programs. However, deep learning models often exhibit degraded performance when deployed across datasets acquired under different imaging conditions. This study presents a robust dual-resolution deep learning framework for DR grading that integrates attention-based feature fusion with ordinal regression to improve cross-dataset generalization. The proposed method employs two parallel EfficientNet backbones operating at different spatial resolutions to capture complementary retinal features. A learnable attention mechanism adaptively fuses multi-resolution representations, while an ordinal regression formulation based on the cumulative link model (CORAL) explicitly accounts for the ordered nature of DR severity levels. To mitigate domain discrepancies between datasets, a preprocessing strategy combining circular cropping, contrast enhancement, and histogram matching is applied. The model was trained on the APTOS 2019 dataset and evaluated on both an internal validation split and an external Messidor-2 test set. Experimental results demonstrate strong grading performance, achieving a quadratic weighted kappa (QWK) of 0.88 on the APTOS validation set and 0.68 on the unseen Messidor-2 dataset, indicating improved robustness for cross-dataset DR grading applications.

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