The equiripple low pass finite impulse response (FIR) filter is designed to eliminate the blood vessels.
Fast and efficient threshold calculation procedure is elaborated to locate the OD in retinal image.
A disk structuring element of radius half the size of the optic disk is found to be more effective for segmentation of the optic disk region.
Seven metrics are used to assess the performance of proposed algorithm.
Better performance is achieved on four standard databases over the methods reviewed in literature.